Martlesham Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The staff are very well supported by the management committee and playschool manager, and moral is good amongst the team. Since the last inspection, they have developed a strong, shared commitment to improve the quality of teaching and introduce new initiatives to enhance children's experiences. • There is a particularly effective partnership with the local school.

Children who are due to move on to school have frequent opportunities to visit the school, and teachers are invited to meet the children at the playschool. This helps children to feel excited, confident and well prepared for the next stage in their learning. • Children behave very well.
.../>Staff provide children with clear boundaries, which help children to understand what is expected of them. Staff praise children for their achievements and provide them with useful tools, such as a sand timer, to help children to learn how to share and take turns with little need for adult support. • The well-resourced garden area is used to great effect to help enhance the experiences of children who enjoy learning outdoors.

For example, children enjoy observing spiders, woodlice and beetles at close quarters in the 'bug hotel' and have ample opportunities to develop their imaginative ideas in the popular 'mud kitchen'. • Planning is not always meticulous enough to respond to the differing levels of engagement of younger children. For example, there is scope to heighten younger children's active involvement and deepen their thinking skills during some adult-led group activities.

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