Busy Bee Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff are friendly, sensitive and enthusiastic, and know the children well.

This helps to create a positive and calm environment, in which children settle quickly and develop the confidence to try new things and manage tasks for themselves. For example, children have a go at putting on and fastening their coats independently. • Leaders and staff provide a bright and attractive environment with a good range of resources which motivate children to take part in activities and explore.

Children enjoy their time at pre-school and develop a positive attitude to learning. • Staff carry out regular and accurate assessments of the children's progress. The...y use this information to plan suitably challenging activities overall, that help to build on what children know and can do.

All children make good progress from their starting points. • Leaders encourage staff to identify and complete training that interests them, to develop their general knowledge and skills. For example, staff have learned to use sign language as an additional means of communication and implement this routinely, which has been particularly effective in supporting children with delayed speech.

• Staff do not use routine tasks, such as mealtimes, as well as they could to extend children's communication and language skills. • Leaders provide training to promote staff's general professional development. However, they do not reflect on staff's practice individually, to identify the support and coaching needs of each team member, to raise the consistency in the quality of teaching.

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