Ugley Duckling Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The indoor and outdoor environments are interesting and stimulating for children.

Children demonstrate high levels of involvement and sustained interest in a range of activities. They are confident and motivated learners and make good progress in their learning. • Children form strong bonds and attachments with staff and their peers.

Staff support their personal, social and emotional development with effective praise and encouragement. • Staff forge good partnerships with parents and carers. They provide them with detailed information about their children's progress.

Staff actively encourage parents to extend their children's learning at... home. • Older children are well prepared for their move on to school. They talk confidently and develop good social skills during mealtimes.

• Staff use effective strategies to help children to make good progress in their levels of understanding. Small-group activities encourage older children to develop their listening and attention skills. • The manager's monitoring of the progress that individual and groups of children are making is not sharply focused enough to secure the best possible outcomes for all children.

• Staff sometimes miss opportunities to support children's thinking skills at the highest level.

information about their children's progress. Staff actively encourage parents to extend

their children's learning at home.

• Older children are well prepared for their move on to school. They talk confidently and develop good social skills during mealtimes. • Staff use effective strategies to help children to make good progress in their levels of understanding.

Small-group activities encourage older children to develop their listening and attention skills. • The manager's monitoring of the progress that individual and groups of children are making is not sharply focused enough to secure the best possible outcomes for all children. • Staff sometimes miss opportunities to support children's thinking skills at the highest level.