St Peters Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff provide a warm and welcoming environment.

Children are happy, have a secure understanding of the routine and confidently explore the variety of activities on offer. • The manager and staff have good relationships with other settings that children attend and professionals who work with individual children. They consistently share information and incorporate any expert advice into their future planning.

This helps to provide a consistent approach to children's learning and development. • Staff know the children well. They have a thorough understanding of their interests and stages of development, and provide good challenge to help support the...ir learning.

All children make good progress. • Partnerships with parents are strong. Staff work hard to ensure all parents are involved in their children's learning and understand how to support their learning further at home.

For example, they share newsletters, use social media and hold parents' meetings. • At times, staff are not able to consistently support all children in their chosen learning due to the organisation of the activities in the environment. • Occasionally, teaching does not make the most out of opportunities to further develop children's knowledge and understanding of mathematics.