Westbrook Little People

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children behave well. Staff place a good focus on supporting children's social skills. They help children to learn about good manners, sharing, turn taking and respecting the differing needs of their friends.

Children are polite and courteous and make good progress in their personal, social and emotional development. • The manager, staff and committee work well together to drive improvement. For instance, they have reviewed the learning environment to help support the differing needs of younger children.

This helps to support two-year-old children to choose toys and activities independently and enables children to learn through their play well. •... Staff place a good focus on promoting children's understanding of the world. Children benefit from opportunities to learn about the wider world through interesting and challenging activities.

For instance, children enjoy learning about car logos as they match them with the different flags of the countries that they are manufactured in. • Staff establish good relationships with parents, carers and other professionals involved in children's care. Regular sharing of information enables staff to ensure children's needs are met extremely well.

Parents speak positively about these relationships. For instance, one parent said, 'Staff support children with respect, patience and the love that they need'. These strong partnerships help staff to support children well.

• Staff complete relevant training. However, they do not always reflect on the knowledge gained to embed this into everyday practice, to help raise their already good teaching standards to an even higher level. • Although staff promote children's writing skills well, they have not considered how they can extend this opportunity to help children learn about letters and the sounds they represent, to extend their early reading skills.