Birdham Pre-school

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff provide a warm and welcoming environment with plenty of activities and resources. This helps children to settle quickly and begin exploring. • The manager, deputy manager and staff know children and their families extremely well.

Effective communication strategies ensure that children's individual needs and stages of development are known and supported well. Children make good progress. • Self-evaluation is good.

The new manager and her deputy have excellent attitudes towards continuous development and have taken action to improve the provision. For example they have extended and developed the outdoor area to help provide even greater learni...ng opportunities for those children who prefer to learn outdoors. • Staff work closely with other professionals who support children's development and others who share children's care with them.

They communicate regularly and incorporate others' ideas to help provide a consistent approach to children's ongoing development. It is not yet outstanding because: • At times, staff do not organise activities so that the youngest children receive the same good levels of support that older children have. • During some large-group activities, staff do not provide enough space for children to move freely or take part as enthusiastically as they would like.

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