Willow Bank Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children enthusiastically engage in play and activities and are motivated to learn. They develop a good range of skills to help them become ready for their eventual move to school. Children, including those who need additional support, make good progress.

• Staff develop very effective partnerships with parents and professionals. They successfully gain and share information to help meet children's individual learning and care needs consistently. For example, staff make very good use of information about children's interests to support their learning and to assist new children to settle quickly.

• Staff support children's learning and development ...strongly, including providing well-timed sensitive interactions. They carefully plan resources and activities to meet children's individual needs and promote their next steps in learning. • Children form positive relationships with each other and staff.

They have good social skills and develop their confidence very well. For example, children confidently make their own choices about their play and follow their own ideas. • The new committee is enthusiastic and supports the operation of the pre-school well.

For example, it meets with the manager regularly and has helped set objectives to develop the quality of the provision further. • At times, staff do not challenge children's learning at a consistently high level in order to help extend their learning even further, in particular more-able children. • Although the manager monitors staff practice well and provides good support for them, she has not fully considered further ways to help develop their skills and knowledge to a higher level.

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