St Matthews Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Staff establish very positive partnerships with parents and keep them extremely well informed about their children's learning from the outset. For example, parents attend settling-in meetings to ensure their child's starting points in development are accurate.

Parents routinely share children's experiences from home. • The inspirational manager has a clear vision of her setting and very high expectations of her staff and the children. She is passionate about offering children the best start in life.

Furthermore, she regularly seeks the views of children, parents and staff, and uses this information to drive ongoing improvements. • Children... display high levels of positive behaviour as they form warm and caring attachments with staff and the children. Staff are excellent role models for children.

Children receive plenty of praise for their efforts and they learn how to share and take care of each other. • Children have enormous fun in this warm and friendly setting. They have many opportunities to follow their interests and lead their own play.

Staff skilfully support children to extend their learning and enhance their enjoyment. • The manager and staff team monitor and track the progress of individual and different groups of children extremely well. This enables them to identify any gaps rapidly and provide exceptional support for children to catch up quickly and continue to make rapid progress in their learning and development.

• The environment is highly stimulating and exceptionally well organised. This significantly enhances children's learning. Children access an excellent range of resources to promote all aspects of their play and learning very successfully.

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