Little Shipmates Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff are ambitious and committed to continuous improvement of the pre-school. They regularly seek the views of parents and children to help reflect upon achievements and define targets, which support continual development. For example, the newly introduced pre-school library helps staff share information with parents to help them understand how children's early literacy can be further supported at home.

• Staff have caring, affectionate relationships with children. They get to know them well by gathering important information about their home routines, interests and needs from entry. Children are happy, settled and secure.

They e...nthusiastically attend the pre-school and take part in a good variety of enjoyable activities. • Staff have established strong partnerships with parents and carers. They use daily discussions and online systems to exchange information about children's achievements.

Parents comment very positively about the 'nurturing' and 'caring' staff and how well supported their children are while attending pre-school. • Staff provide an extremely welcoming and happy environment for children to learn and play. Children have an excellent range of toys and resources available to them and staff plan highly-stimulating activities to meet their individual needs well.

• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported well. Staff work effectively with other professionals, such as speech and language specialists. This allows staff to identify and support children's individual needs.

All children make good progress in their development. • Although staff have implemented new systems to liaise with other settings that children attend, these communications do not include sharing information on children's learning and development to promote continuity of learning. • On occasions, staff do not promote enough opportunities for children to investigate and use technology for different purposes in their play and learning.

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