Treehouse Children’s Centre

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The well-qualified manager and her staff team are committed to the continuous improvement of the setting, with the aim to provide consistently high-quality care and education for the children in their care.

• Staff read stories to children in an interesting manner. They use an exciting tone of voice to draw children's attention to key pictures or to focus on new words. This supports children's literacy and language skills.

• Staff encourage children's developing self-care skills, such as teaching them how to wash their hands effectively and how to use tissues to wipe their noses. Older children begin to use the toilet independently. • Children be...gin to make links between familiar letters and items they can see in the environment.

For instance, they notice words that begin with the same letter as their own name. • Parents comment on the variety of activities their children enjoy at the setting. They particularly appreciate the setting's homely, family atmosphere and attribute how well their children have settled to this.

Parents speak warmly about staff and the positive impact that regular attendance has had on their children. • The manager's monitoring of children's learning and development is not rigorous in its analysis of progress made by different groups of children. • At times, staff miss opportunities to support younger children fully in their play and extend their learning and interests even further.