Bar Hill Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Strong leadership and management provides opportunities for staff to attend training courses. Leaders hold regular supervision meetings with staff that help to support their professional development.

• The pre-school has good links with the local school. Staff have visited the school to spend time with the early years' teachers. They understand the skills that children need to be ready for school.

• Staff know the children well. They observe children as they play, making accurate assessment of their learning. They use their interests to provide engaging activities that excite children.

Children learn by exploring and investigating the wo...rld around them while taking part in the many sensory experiences provided both indoors and outdoors. • Children settle quickly into the pre-school. They have good relationships with the staff.

They are happy to join in with the daily routines. • Partnerships with parents are strong. They speak highly of the care that their children receive at the pre-school.

They are happy that their children are making progress in their learning. • Staff do not always plan with a sharp focus on children's next steps to help them make even better progress. • Occasionally, staff miss opportunities to build on children's mathematical language during their play.