Southover Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children are happy, settled and enjoy making independent choices throughout the day. • Staff work effectively in partnership with parents and other professionals to support children's individual needs. • Children make good progress from their starting points.

Staff make regular assessments of children's progress. This enables the next steps of learning to be planned effectively. • The key-person system works well.

Children settle quickly as they form warm and caring relationships with the adults. • Staff make good use of the outdoor area. Children relish the daily access to this well-resourced learning environment.

There are opportunitie...s for them to develop physical skills. For instance, children go on nature walks and use climbing frames. • There is scope to develop the manager's systems for overseeing the quality of teaching, to ensure consistently high-quality teaching across the whole staff team.