The Pines Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The managers regularly observe staff practice and carry out regular supervision meetings to manage their performance. They target training well to meet professional development needs and help staff to continually improve their teaching skills.

• Staff promote children's communication and language skills well. They are aware when children need extra support and work closely with parents and other professionals. Staff plan activities for individual children, to help them make more rapid progress with their speaking and listening skills.

• Managers analyse the progress different groups of children make to identify any gaps in teaching and learning a...s early as possible. Planning, observation and assessment are robust and focused on individual children's progress and next steps in learning. • Parents speak highly of the staff.

They state their children feel safe and secure and receive good education that prepares them well for starting school. • Managers carefully review any accidents that occur and take appropriate action to reduce them. For example, they review risk assessments of the environment and this helps them keep children safe.

• At times, the staff do not organise the times between activities and routines as well as they could. This results in children not being engaged in any productive activity and they find it hard to wait. • Staff do not always give children clear messages about the importance of having regular drinks of water to stay hydrated.