Titchmarsh Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make good progress in their learning and development. Additional funding is used well. For example, children benefit from one-to-one support and enrichment opportunities to help them achieve the best possible outcomes.

• Children's language and communication development is promoted well. Staff engage children in conversations and commentate on what they are doing. They use strategies, for example visual clues and sign language, to help accelerate children's speech and communication skills.

• The manager has established good partnerships with local schools and other ...professionals. This helps to provide consistency in children's care and learning and ensures children receive the appropriate help they need. Teachers are invited into the pre-school to meet the children and detailed information is shared with them to support children's move on to school.

• Staff act as positive models. They interact and speak with children in a warm and respectful manner. Children behave well.

They listen to and follow instructions, for example remembering to use their 'walking feet' indoors. • The manager is not always successful in obtaining the views of parents to help contribute to the pre-school's ongoing improvement. • The manager does not focus precisely on what individual staff need to do to raise the quality of their teaching the highest level.