Childville Pre School @ St Johns

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders and staff are experienced, ambitious and hard-working. They work well as a team and provide children with a warm, welcoming and stimulating environment. The key-person system is well developed and children form good emotional attachments with staff.

• Staff are sensitive to children's needs and support their emotional well-being effectively. Subsequently, children are enthusiastic and happily engage in a range of age-appropriate activities in the pre-school. They are confident and are able to make independent choices in their play.

• Staff offer good support to children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) to make con...tinual improvement in their development. Excellent partnerships with parents and specialist teachers ensure that all children receive support when needed and continuity in their learning and care. • The manager has effective methods for self-evaluation and values the views of parents, staff and children in this process.

Together they reflect accurately on the strengths and areas for further development. For example, simple changes such as where children hang their belongings, and improvements to the outdoor area, support them successfully to meet the needs of all children. • Staff plan interactive story sessions with props, sing action songs and rhymes, and enthusiastically take part alongside the children.

This effectively support children's communication and language development, including for children who speak English as an additional language. • Although teaching is of a good standard, at times during adult-directed activities staff do not introduce new mathematical vocabulary accurately. • Staff do not consistently track children's overall learning as well as they could to help them precisely plan for their next steps across all areas of development.

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