Pinewood Family Group

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager, staff and committee work well together to provide children with good-quality care and learning experiences. Together they reflect on and evaluate their service to identify strengths in practice and areas for further improvement.

They make changes to enhance the learning experiences children receive, for example the recent garden redevelopment. • Staff are deployed effectively and supervise children well. They identify and manage risks well.

Staff encourage children to take age-appropriate risks and teach them routines that maintain their own physical welfare. • The organisation of the pre-school environment, both indoors and outside,... motivates children's play. This is particularly effective in promoting children's physical play.

For instance, children thoroughly enjoy building a low-level 'wooden bridge' and practise walking along this, to help develop their good coordination skills. • Staff place a strong focus on building children's personal, social and emotional development. They develop good relationships with children and reinforce expected behaviour boundaries with kindness and respect.

Consequently, children behave well and develop strong bonds with staff and each other. • Staff develop extremely good partnerships with the local school. They share detailed information to help staff know how they can prepare children for their future learning.

This helps staff to plan and provide activities that support all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to gain skills in readiness for school. • At times, the staff do not give children enough time to think through and express their ideas in response to their questions. • Although staff have developed good relationships with parents, the arrangements to engage parents with their children's learning and experiences in the pre-school are not fully effective in all cases.

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