The Kindergarten

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff and children share warm, close relationships.

This helps build children's confidence and self-esteem. Children greet the staff team with smiles and cuddles, and settle very quickly. • Staff create welcoming and interesting play spaces for children to explore.

Children make their own choices of what activities to play with throughout the session. They confidently move the resources around to suit their play. For example, children turned a ramp upside down to carry a big bowl of water to a playhouse to make some bread.

• The manager and staff monitor data of children's achievements consistently. They make good use of information abou...t children's progress to make changes to the curriculum where they identify weaker areas in learning. For instance, staff improved their knowledge of how to encourage boys to engage and focus for longer periods to help extend their learning.

• Staff help to ensure the transition to school is as seamless as possible. Children use the facilities and playgrounds of the host school and regularly share in activities and celebrations. • Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities very well.

They work closely with other professionals, including the school special educational needs coordinator and family support adviser, to meet children's individual needs. • The leadership team has made good improvements since the last inspection to help improve outcomes for children. For instance, staff now offer a wider range of resources and activities that reflect the diversity of people and their lives.

This helps children learn to respect different views, celebrate each other's cultures and understand how people and families differ. • Staff sometimes miss opportunities for children to learn to do things by themselves so that they become even more independent. • At times, staff do not consistently use opportunities during children's self-chosen play to challenge and extend their learning further, to persevere, test out their ideas and solve problems.

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