Stower Vale Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders and staff accurately assess children's achievements. They carry out regular observations to find out what children can do, and use this information to plan for their future learning. All children make good progress in their learning from their starting points.

• Partnerships with parents are strong and help to ensure consistency for children. Parents have regular access to children's development records and often share information with their child's key person. • Staff are good role models for children.

They take every opportunity to praise children's positive behaviour. Children learn how to share, take turns and negotiate solving proble...ms and conflicts. • Children and their families are supported very well.

Leaders and staff work in effective partnerships with other professionals to support children's care and learning needs, in order to help them make good progress. Leaders use funding effectively to ensure any gaps in learning quickly narrow. • Children develop a good understanding of how to keep themselves safe.

For example, they help staff check the outdoor area to ensure it is safe and ready for their play. • Staff do not consistently organise some activities, or manage the transition between some activities, effectively to maintain children's learning. • Leaders do not support staff as well as they could to develop some areas of their expertise, in order to improve children's play experiences further.

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