Bingham Kindergarten

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff provide a warm and welcoming environment. Children demonstrate that they feel safe and secure.

Staff build positive relationships with children and offer them gentle reassurance, praise and encouragement. Children are happy, settled and confident. • The owner/manager and staff work well together.

They are dedicated and have a strong commitment to continually improving the service they provide. The owner/manager evaluates the quality of the setting and develops action plans that are well targeted to help improve the outcomes for children. • Staff complete detailed observations and assessments based around children's interests and individual ...needs.

This enables them to build on what children already know and can do successfully. Children make good progress in their learning relative to their starting points. • Staff work closely with parents, carers and other professionals.

They share regular information with parents and carers, who have many opportunities to discuss their child's progress and talk about how they can support their child's learning further at home. • Although the owner/manager tracks individual children's progress well, she does not monitor the progress of different groups of children effectively to help identify and close any gaps in learning quickly. • Staff do not consistently make the most of opportunities during everyday activities to help support children's developing independence skills further, such as enabling them to become more involved in the preparation of food for snacks.