Boughton Monchelsea Playgroup Association

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children enjoy a very broad, interesting range of activities that cover all areas of learning. They make good progress as they learn through exploration and discovery.

• The care and teaching for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are strong. Staff work effectively with a range of other professionals, and with parents, to identify children's unique needs and to plan coordinated and cohesive support. • Staff support children to understand the importance of making healthy choices in relation to food and teach them to follow good personal hygiene practices.

Children confidently join in with handwashing routines before... meals and independently blow their noses and dispose carefully of the used tissues. • Children behave well and develop good social skills. They learn to share and take turns as they play, and form friendships with others.

• Partnerships with parents are effective. Parents receive a friendly welcome as they drop off and collect their children, and have good opportunities to discuss their child's progress and contribute observations from home. • The manager and staff team work well together and constantly review their practice, successfully identifying areas for improvement.

For example, they have made changes to the organisation of large group 'show and tell' activities to support children to become more confident in speaking out in front of others. • At times, some staff do not recognise when quiet, less-confident children may respond to encouragement to join in with activities. • Arrangements to monitor the impact of educational programmes are not as precise as possible to help staff identify any emerging gaps in the progress of groups of children at the earliest opportunity.