Tiny Toes Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and her deputy have many years' experience in providing childcare to children and their families.

They frequently review their own and staff practice. For example, they have recently identified that communication at times between senior team members could be even better. • The staff team is knowledgeable and sensitively supports families of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Staff keenly access training to ensure they can provide tailored care to meet children's specific needs. • The staff work well as a team. The manager leads them effectively to ensure children are fully supported in their chosen are...as of play and fully supervised at all times.

• Children are emotionally secure, and this is enhanced by the warm relationships they share with the staff and their peers. Staff enjoy the job they do. They enthusiastically engage with the children as they play and provide opportunities to extend their learning.

Children are happy and keen to learn and, as a result, are making strong progress in their development. • Staff value what parents have to say and they obtain information from parents when their children first attend about their current stage of development. This information is successfully used to plan for children's individual learning.

• Parents express positive views about most aspects of the service they receive. They describe the care as 'very good'. Parents comment that their older children who used to attend were very sad to leave.

They also say that their younger children who currently attend would come seven days a week if they could. • Some parents are not given opportunities frequently enough to share what they know about their children's ongoing development and achievements from home. • Staff do not consistently utilise opportunities to help children fully understand the benefits of healthy eating and leading a healthy lifestyle.

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