Cherubs Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The leadership of the provision is inspirational. All staff work together as a cohesive, efficient team and their individual talent and expertise are recognised and celebrated. Managers very successfully ensure that all staff have opportunities to continually enrich their skills.

• Children develop excellent social skills and spend much of their time laughing with their friends and with staff. Staff make superb use of humour, enabling children to try new things without any fear of failure. This supports children to gain valuable learning as they discover through repeated trial and error.

• Children are extremely motivated learners. They co...nfidently choose activities from the huge selection available and make superb progress in all areas of their development. For example, a skilfully planned printing activity very successfully captures children's interest.

They are fascinated as they explore the textures produced by different vegetables, and show a confident knowledge of how to mix different colours. • Partnerships with parents are highly effective. Parents express tremendous praise and gratitude to the staff for the support they offer to children and the whole family.

Parents feel that their children are prepared as well as possible for their move to school. • Staff have a very strong commitment to self-evaluation and ongoing improvement to the overall quality of the service, as well as to the support for individual children. For example, recent training and work with specialist teachers has given them the skills to identify triggers and signs to watch out for in relation to children's mental health.