Beulah Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff make good use of information from observations to accurately assess children's learning.

They plan challenging activities that capture children's interest and help to motivate them to learn. Children make good progress. • The environment is stimulating and well organised.

Children enjoy a wide range of resources, toys and equipment that help to promote all areas of learning. Staff provide children with a good balance of adult-led and child-initiated activities. Children make independent choices about what they want to do and confidently explore the environment.

• Children develop very close relationships with staff and strong frien...dships with each other. They seek out their key person for reassurance when they feel a little unsettled. Children are happy in the pre-school and demonstrate good levels of emotional security.

This has a positive impact on their well-being. • Partnerships with parents, other early years providers and external professionals are strong. This successfully helps to promote consistency and continuity of care and learning, and children are well supported as they transfer to other settings, including school.

• The arrangements for monitoring staff practice are still developing. Supervision meetings are not used highly effectively to clearly identify the individual training needs of staff, to help to enhance their already good teaching skills. • Self-evaluation is not sharply focused on targeting priorities for improvement to help to raise the quality of the pre-school to an outstanding level.