Rainbow Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The management team demonstrates a dedicated commitment to making improvements and it seeks the views of staff, parents and children. It routinely reviews its provision and sets clear targets to make positive changes for the benefit of children.

• The pre-school is extremely welcoming and inclusive. Staff offer an abundance of praise and encouragement to children to help them to develop a positive approach to learning. • Staff complete thorough risk assessments to ensure that they provide a safe environment.

Effective procedures are in place to closely monitor access into the preschool. External doors are kept locked and parents and visitors are ...individually welcomed into the pre-school. • Staff regularly assess the level of children's skills, knowledge and understanding.

They use accurate assessments of children's development to plan effectively, overall, to build on children's interests and skills. Staff make good use of additional funding to help all groups of children achieve well. This helps all children to make good progress.

• Parents are very complimentary of the pre-school and value the supportive relationships they have with staff. • The management team recognises the benefits of working with other professionals to ensure a consistent approach to children's care and learning. This helps to address gaps in children's learning and supports children to achieve well-planned targets.

• Staff are provided with supervisory meetings and are encouraged to undertake training. This helps them to extend their knowledge of how to keep children safe and how to be more effective at supporting children's learning and development. • Information is not gathered about children's abilities on entry to the pre-school to enable more-detailed planning for their learning and development from the beginning.

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