Tarka Tots Ltd - South Molton

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff make very good use of visits within the local area to support children's understanding of the world, people and communities. For example, time spent with elderly residents of a local care home provides exciting opportunities to develop children's social and communication skills.

Children show interest in the memories shared by the older people about their childhoods. • There are strong links with other professionals, such as a small group of health visitors at the same site. This helps to provide specialised advice to support the well-being of children and their families.

• Managers successfully analyse children's progress and make effectiv...e changes to the curriculum. For example, following a recent assessment, there is an increased focus to extend children's mathematical knowledge. As a result, children enjoy exciting activities to build and extend their number skills.

• Staff are caring and attentive. They show a genuine interest in the children. This promotes children's social and emotional development very well.

Children are happy and settle quickly. • Staff use a range of teaching methods to support children's communication skills well. For example, they provide ongoing commentary for babies and young children to model good language.

Staff repeat words clearly and introduce new words to extend older children's speech development effectively. • The manager has not fully established systems to successfully monitor and review the performance of the staff team to promote the quality of teaching to the highest level possible. • Staff do not always use the information they gather from regular assessments on each child to identify a sufficiently focused next step to extend children's learning and development further.