Precious Smiles

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is outstanding • The manager and staff are passionate about their work with children and they are exceptionally good at evaluating their practice. For instance, they observe each other as they teach children and set challenging targets to help keep children enthralled in extremely motivating learning experiences.

• The manager and staff value strong partnerships with parents. They consult with them regularly to consistently agree children's next learning steps and offer highly practical information about how to build on these at home. • The manager and staff monitor the progress of individual children and different groups extremely well.

This enables them t...o identify any gaps rapidly and provide exceptionally strong support for children to make very swift progress in their development. • Staff skilfully and effectively use various opportunities to strengthen children's excellent mathematical skills. For example, they teach children how to use a ruler to measure and compare lengths of different items.

• Children develop impressive early literacy skills. For example, they learn the sound of letters and simple words, such as 'at' and 'sat' with great confidence. • Relationships between children and staff are very strong, which fosters a very secure sense of belonging with all children and ensures that children are confident learners.

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