Checkendon Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff make good use of every opportunity to help to build children's vocabulary and speech. Children learn to make different animal sounds and learn how to pronounce words correctly. • Staff challenge children's mathematical skills well.

For example, younger children begin to recognise numbers and count, and older children begin to use addition and subtraction in their play. • Children show good levels of independence. Staff praise children well when they achieve new self-care skills, such as toileting themselves and managing small tasks well.

• The manager reflects on the provision well. She has made many improvements since starting her role as m...anager, such as involving parents in their child's next steps in learning and increasing the accuracy of children's assessments and observations to raise their outcomes. All children make good progress in their learning, given their starting points.

It is not yet outstanding because: • At times, children do not consistently get the time they need to think and process their new learning. Staff sometimes miss chances to help younger children to follow more-simple instructions. • Although the manager tracks the children's individual progress well, she does not monitor groups of children's progress thoroughly to help to raise children's progress to the highest possible levels.

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