Weedon Bec Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The pre-school management team is ambitious. It supports the well-established staff to improve their knowledge.

Managers have started to record staff practice using video cameras. They use this strategy to help staff reflect on the quality of their teaching. This helps motivate staff to improve areas of their practice well.

• Staff prepare children for starting school effectively. For example, they use the same resources as local schools to teach children how to read and write letters. This helps children to become familiar with learning they will experience at school.

Staff work closely with parents to help ensure children can use the t...oilet independently by the time they start school. • Staff inform parents regularly about their children's progress and activities. They support parents to extend their children's learning at home.

For example, staff send home reading books that parents share with their children. • Staff make accurate assessments of children's learning. They use this to help them to plan for children's future learning well.

All children make good progress relative to their starting points. • Staff are kind, caring and sensitive. They build secure relationships with children.

Children demonstrate they are confident and gain good self-esteem. • Staff do not make the most of opportunities to further extend younger children's speaking skills. • Staff have not fully developed strong links with other settings that children attend to help provide the highest levels of continuity in children's care and learning.

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