Topsy Turvy Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The strong management team is highly effective and self-evaluation is accurate.

Managers continually reflect on practice and include the views of parents and staff to identify areas for improvement. • Excellent interactions between staff and children help extend communication and language skills well. Staff skilfully build on children's understanding and give meaningful explanations to enhance their learning successfully.

For example, during a water-play activity, staff explain how water is running through the cogs to enable them to turn. • Staff are positive and encouraging. They display the behaviour they expect and support parents to replicate... the setting's behaviour strategies at home.

This contributes to a continuity of care between home and pre-school. Children are quick to say 'please' and 'thank you'. They share resources well without reminders and mirror the kindness of staff with one another.

• Children make good progress towards their early learning goals. Additional afternoon sessions provide opportunities for older children to play challenging games and learn to wait patiently for their turn. These help them to develop key skills for their next stage of learning.

• Children do not consistently have opportunities to recognise the language they use at home in the pre-school environment and the resources available. • Managers are developing strategies to support children to explore, investigate and extend their mathematical understanding. Staff are enhancing their skills further, to help to bring about improvements to children's knowledge.