Park Avenue Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff give careful thought to how they organise the environment. They provide a very welcoming and stimulating setting and children are eager to play and explore.

• Staff take careful note of children's interests and plan activities to engage and challenge children. Staff use their accurate observations to monitor individual children's progress across all areas of learning. They have a good understanding of how children learn.

Children make good progress in their learning, personal development and confidence. • Children have many opportunities to do things for themselves. For example, they choose what to play with and select cutlery and crockery a...t snack and meal times.

Children learn good hygiene routines to help promote their good health. • The manager and the whole staff team continuously reflect on the provision. They work closely with other professionals and discuss their whole-team training priorities to help them make improvements.

The manager has developed good links with local schools and works closely with the school staff to ease transitions when children move from the pre-school into school. • Partnerships with parents are good. Parents speak very highly about the care provided by staff.

They comment positively on the recent improvements and enjoy the regular feedback they receive about their children's time at the pre-school. It is not yet outstanding because: • On occasion, staff ask questions too quickly without giving children enough time to think about their answers. • Although the manager successfully monitors the progress of individual children, she does not evaluate the progress of different groups so that she can identify gaps in learning more effectively.