Little Acorns Pre-school

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leadership is very strong. The newly appointed manager is passionate about her role.

She is totally committed in her approach in providing the highest quality early years provision. She shares her vision equally with the dedicated staff team and parents. Children benefit from a good introduction to their education and are developing skills in readiness for school.

• Children make good progress from their starting points. Staff successfully involve parents in their children's learning. They share information and communicate extremely effectively with them.

For example, parents routinely inform staff of children's learning at home. • Staff... are highly skilled in motivating children to behave exceptionally well. They place an unquestionable focus on providing children with the skills to manage and understand their own feelings and behaviour.

For example, they have introduced an interactive display. This is helping children to understand how actions, such as 'snatching', might make other children feel. • Staff are kind and caring and genuinely enjoy spending time with the children they care for.

Children have great relationships with their key person and all other staff. • Staff show some outstanding teaching skills. They nurture children's language and communication skills very well.

For instance, staff have high expectations of children's language and often introduce new vocabulary during play. Staff model the vocabulary first and then ask questions to encourage children to use the words. • Staff are committed to their professional development.

However, the manager is not yet monitoring staff training rigorously enough to evaluate and identify clearly the impact this has on children's outcomes. • The manager is aware of the need to enhance the planning of activities to support individual children's learning and development. However, this is in the very early stages and not yet shared with staff.

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