Aston on Trent Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff build supportive and nurturing relationships with children and their families. Children benefit greatly from the individual attention they receive from staff, settle well and enjoy their time at the pre-school.

Staff promote children's health and well-being needs very successfully. • The manager and staff have good partnerships with parents and other professionals. This helps to provide consistency in children's care and learning.

Partnerships with parents are strong. Staff regularly find out what children learn at home and keep parents up to date with their achievements at the pre-school. • Staff know the children very well and assess thei...r development accurately.

Staff record detailed observations of children's achievements and identify their next steps in learning. Children make good progress from their developmental starting points. • Staff nurture a strong sense of belonging to the group and manage children's behaviour well.

Staff are good role models. Children show politeness and care for each other and their environment. They take turns, share and learn social skills.

• The manager is passionate about providing a high-quality early years provision for children. She evaluates the quality of the service, taking into consideration the views of staff, parents and children. She implements a number of changes to benefit the children.

For example, she and staff have introduced more activities for outside. • Occasionally, staff do not make full use of all the learning opportunities that arise to provide older and most-able children with highly challenging activities that extend their learning as effectively as possible. • The monitoring of staff practice is not yet sharply focused on raising the quality of teaching to the highest level.