River Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The manager is highly responsive to feedback from parents, staff and children. She uses the information exceptionally well to continue to maintain the high quality of the provision and to make even more improvements. • The staff and manager form excellent partnerships with the local school.

They make an exceptional effort to plan events to support children to be extremely well prepared for the move to school. For instance, children and staff frequently use the school facilities and attend school events. This provides a wide range of experiences for children and supports them to develop high levels of confidence ready for school.

• Staff us...e their expert knowledge and teaching to support children's learning. For example, they use snack time to skilfully extend children's vocabulary. • Children have been taught the skills to identify hazards in the environment and are involved in risk assessing the pre-school.

For example, one child is chosen each day to take on the role of the 'Health Elf'. They patrol the pre-school with a clipboard and carefully record any risks or hazards that they see. • Additional funding is used exceptionally well in order to ensure that all children make rapid progress from their starting points.

For example, children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) have resources provided to support them as individuals and as a result make exceptional progress. • Staff are superb role models for children. Children's behaviour is exemplary and they are polite and kind.

They consider the needs of others extremely well. • A highly stimulating environment promotes children's learning and development across all areas of the curriculum, particularly early literacy. For example, children listen intently to staff and each other and are extremely focused in their chosen activity.