Ross Preschool Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager, staff and committee work together to address the continual development of the playgroup.

Self-evaluation is used effectively to review practice and ensure that children continue to benefit from improvements made to the playgroup. For example, parents are provided with newly implemented home learning bags. The richly resourced bags encourage parents to continue children's learning at home.

• Staff attend regular training and share new learning with the rest of the team. They speak enthusiastically about the positive impact of recent language and communication training on children's learning. This contributes to high-quality teaching a...nd children's good progress.

• Children enjoy an interesting range of activities and resources. Staff know children well and ensure that their interests and preferences are planned for. For example, children in the toddler room use their imaginations while dressed as knights and princesses and play in a castle.

• Partnerships with parents are strong. Parents speak highly of staff and say they are pleased with their children's progress since joining the playgroup. • Children are happy and content and demonstrate a positive attitude to learning.

They build close bonds with staff and are settled. Children benefit from regular outings within the local environment, such as visits to the church where they meet the vicar. This helps support children's understanding of people and communities.

• The manager has systems in place to monitor the consistency of staff's assessments of children's learning. However, this practice is not fully effective and occasionally assessments are over generous with regard to children's level of development. • Staff do not always swiftly identify what children can already do upon entry to enable them to rigorously monitor every child's ongoing development from the onset of the child's attendance.