Sconce Hills Pre-School Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff attend meetings with the manager to reflect on their practice. Most staff are well qualified. All staff display consistently good teaching.

They demonstrate a good understanding of how children learn. • All children, including those in receipt of funding, work at typical levels of development for their age. Children who speak English as an additional language make very good progress in their speaking skills.

• The manager and staff evaluate the playgroup well. They implement changes to ensure that all staff are consistent when they manage children's behaviour. Staff talk to children about rules and boundaries.

Children behave well ...and know what is expected of them. • Staff provide opportunities for children to develop their personal and social skills. For example, children learn the names of other children during singing activities at group times.

• Children demonstrate good physical skills. Older children pedal tricycles and demonstrate their coordination. Staff hold on to younger children's hands when they walk on the edge of a tyre in the garden.

This helps them to develop their balance. • The manager and staff work well in partnership with schools that some children will attend. For example, they invite teachers to visit children in the playgroup.

Information is exchanged with teachers, which promotes consistency in children's learning and development. • Although the manager and staff monitor the progress of individual children well, they do not compare the progress made by different groups of children. • Staff do not provide all parents with ideas about how they can continue to support children's learning at home.