Upton Methodist Church Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and her deputy provide clear and purposeful leadership to the staff team.

They reflect well on practice continuously and make changes that benefit children's care and learning needs, such as the revised café-style lunchtime. • Staff and children share warm and close relationships. Staff are good role models to children and children's behaviour is good.

• Partnerships with parents are strong. Parents are extremely complimentary of the staff team. They comment that the staff go above and beyond to meet their expectations.

Staff communicate well with parents, to ensure that they meet children's needs effectively. • The manager a...nd staff have a good understanding of child development. They use their regular observations of children's learning effectively to make accurate assessments and monitor children's progress well.

Children make good progress, or better, including those who are learning to speak English as an additional language. • Occasionally, staff do not organise whole-group activities as effectively as possible, to enable quieter children to share their ideas and keep them interested and engaged. • At times, staff miss opportunities to encourage children to link sounds to letters, for example, when labelling their pictures or artwork.