ButtonsnBows Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The manager and her experienced team have a secure understanding of their professional responsibilities. Overall, they have established very effective partnerships with parents and other professionals which have a positive impact on children's learning. The observations and assessments staff make of children's learning are accurate and inform the data the manager collates to monitor and compare the progress of different children.

Planning reflects what individual children need to learn next and what they are interested in. Teaching in literacy and communication and language is strong. Children listen to familiar stories and re-enact them during imaginary pl...ay or create large-scale artwork.

They sing songs and rhymes and learn to recognise letters and the sounds they represent. Staff remind children to use their listening ears and kind hands. Children are well behaved, confident and cooperative.

For example, children sensibly serve themselves cereal and pour their own milk before carefully passing the bowl and jug to the next child without prompting. It is not yet outstanding because: Sometimes older children's concentration skills are not promoted to the highest level during larger group activities. Staff focus their attention on what new children can already do and find out less about children's home life experience or their interests.