Blue Coat Pre-School & Busy Bees

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The manager and staff work effectively with parents, address their concerns promptly and keep them well informed. For example, they discuss the ways in which staff support younger children as they learn to play together safely. Staff ensure that the environment is secure and teach children about keeping safe.

For instance, they teach children to walk carefully near roads and to cross roads safely. Staff provide interesting opportunities for children to explore early writing. For example, they have a big board in the garden for children to write on with paints and chalk.

Staff plan the environment extremely carefully to provide stimulating areas for... play and learning. For instance, they create very cosy reading spaces, indoors and outdoors, where staff and children frequently share animated, and very exciting, story times. They often visit the local library where children choose the books to bring back and share.

Children are happy and sociable, and they seek out others frequently to share their play. They join whole-group activities eagerly, such as singing, where they animatedly explore the sounds and actions in songs as they follow the different tempos that they hear. It is not yet outstanding because: At times, during planned craft activities, staff do not support children to explore their own creative ideas.

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