Windmill Pre School Brill

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is outstanding

Children thrive and receive exemplary care and education at this home-from-home pre-school. Even before a child begins their journey at the setting, secure partnerships are established with parents and carers.

Through a programme of highly effective home visits and settling-in sessions, staff and children build trusting relationships. The dedicated staff demonstrate close and meaningful relationships with all children. Staff warmly welcome children inside and engage in conversations about the day ahead.

Staff have high expectations for children's behaviour. They display a 'Kindness Tree' to recognise children's ...positive actions and achievements. For example, when children demonstrate good sharing, turn taking or learning, staff sit with the children to discuss it as a group.

Children are proud of their own and their friends' accomplishments. They cheerily applaud and celebrate together.Highly skilled adults nurture and inspire children.

Warm and trusting relationships are nourished, by kind and compassionate staff. No limits are put on what children can achieve and accomplish. The learning environment is enticing and well considered.

It sparks children's interests and curiosity. For example, children use a range of real tools with ease. Firstly, they learn how to be safe ensuring they have their safety goggles on, before turning and rotating the clamp to secure their wood on the workbench outside.

They use a range of saws, knowing they need to saw 'back and forth' to cut through the wood and corks. Children persevere for prolonged periods as they hammer nails into the wood, adding milk bottle tops to secure wheels to their creations. Children have excellent attitudes to learning.

They exhibit remarkable levels of motivation and concentration. Children gain excellent knowledge to support them with their future education.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

The passionate manager and dedicated staff work tirelessly to create a highly ambitious and stimulating curriculum for all children.

Staff carefully consider how key concepts and knowledge link to children's stages of development. Woven into this is a programme for children to understand and regulate their own learning and thinking.Partnerships with parents are exceptional.

Information for parents is in abundance. Parents speak highly of the pre-school in every aspect. They explain that they feel involved in their child's learning journey.

This enables them to support children further at home. Many parents comment on the positive impact of the storytelling programmes and forest school.Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are superbly supported.

The special educational needs coordinator is highly proactive in listening to concerns. She swiftly creates support for children. Working alongside families and professionals, she aims for all children to have the same opportunities.

This contributes to the rapid and substantial progress that all children make over short periods of time.Staff know the children incredibly well. They plan activities knowing all children's interests.

The manager follows robust processes for tracking children individually and as groups. As a result, children meet developmental targets while enjoying activities.The inspirational manager has embedded a rigorous system to support and monitor the development of staff.

She coaches and mentors staff to help them confidently perform to their full potential. Staff benefit from a range of excellent training opportunities. They speak highly of the training opportunities available to them and feel extremely well supported in their roles.

Children behave superbly. Staff are excellent role models. Children demonstrate fantastic levels of independence and pride in their accomplishments.

For example, younger children learn to tidy up a minimum of two things at tidy up time. Older children use dustpan and brushes competently, as they sweep up the rice.Staff support children's communication and language development extremely well.

The enjoyment of reading, rhymes and stories is a prominent feature of pre-school life. For example, staff recite short poems daily with children. All children benefit from telling their own stories through a programme pre-school have adopted.

In addition, staff use images, signing and simple language to ensure routines are clear and consistently implemented.Mealtimes are wonderfully social occasions and promote opportunities for high levels of independence. Children self-serve, pour their own drinks, using china cups and jugs, and politely pass things to friends.

Staff take opportunities to talk about foods they eat and drink. For example, through discussion children learn there are over 7500 different varieties of apples and 97% of the world's water comes from the oceans.The innovative staff engage children in meaningful tasks to teach them about global issues.

Children learn about the environment and the role they can play in improving it. For instance, they have formed an eco-committee where children actively recycle different materials and take part in community projects, such as litter picking in the village. Children learn the importance of saving energy as the allocated eco-representative, saves energy by turning off lights and electricity, ahead of going outside each day.

This is empowering children to make a difference and supporting them to adopt higher levels of respect, care and consideration for the world around them.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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