Pardes House

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff skilfully blend faith-based learning with all areas of learning and development to create exciting, well-planned, adult-led activities and an inviting environment. This helps support children to gain new skills effectively and build on their learning. • Parents talk positively about the kindergarten.

They talk enthusiastically about how their children enjoy coming to the kindergarten, how they are given many opportunities to share information about their children's learning, and that they understand how they are able to support them at home. • Children learn about letters in both the English and Hebrew alphabets and the sounds they r...epresent. Daily visits from the Rabbi are looked forward to and he uses excellent skills to support children's understanding.

For example, he encourages children to form the symbols using pretzels. • Children enjoy their time at the kindergarten. They are inquisitive, confident and friendly.

Children form close bonds with staff and this helps them to feel secure. They develop a sense of belonging as they bring items into the kindergarten to be viewed by others and look at photographs of their achievements on display. • Children make good progress.

They achieve the levels of development that are typically expected for their age and many exceed these. Children who need extra help to develop some key skills benefit from targeted teaching that helps them swiftly to close any gaps. • The manager evaluates the quality of teaching at the kindergarten well.

She observes staff practice, coaches and sets action plans for improvements. However, the programme for the staff professional development is not sharply focused enough on raising the quality of teaching to the highest level. • Occasionally, staff do not help children understand about taking risks and how to keep themselves safe.

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