Sandpiper Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager, committee members and staff team have worked well together to address the actions and recommendations set at the previous inspection. They have focused on improving standards and driving quality higher. • Staff are caring and build strong bonds with all children to support their emotional wellbeing effectively.

Children are happy, confident and eager to learn. • Staff support children's early language well by helping children to develop their speech and learn how to listen. • Children behave well.

Staff are good role models and support children in learning how to respect and value the differing needs of their friends. This helps the ...children to gain skills that prepare them well for their future learning. • Partnerships with parents are strong.

Staff keep parents updated about all aspects of their children's care and learning. Staff suggest ways to help parents support children's learning at home. • The pre-school has very good relationships with the local schools and other settings children attend, to share assessments of what children learn and provide consistency.

• Staff do not always make the most of opportunities to extend and build on the older and most-able children's learning. • At times, staff do not help children enough to build on their use of numbers, counting and simple calculation. • The manager does not ensure that the initial information staff obtain from every parent about their child's learning is sufficiently detailed in order to fully support their early identification of children's precise learning needs.