Christ Church Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The dedicated manager uses her excellent knowledge and experience to lead her team effectively and to model superb practice. Together, they strive to provide an exceptional service for children and their families.

• Children's behaviour is impeccable. They are incredibly kind, helpful, polite and considerate of each other. Children demonstrate an excellent understanding of the highest standards of behaviour, rules and expectations, which they have developed with the staff.

• Partnerships with parents and other early years professionals are outstanding. A highly collaborative approach to learning and support means targeted activities and ac...tion plans drive forward progress at a rapid rate. • Children express positive attitudes towards learning and demonstrate a 'can-do' attitude.

They develop confidence and determination as they take on challenges in their play. For instance, children demonstrate excellent levels of curiosity as they discover how ice melts to reveal toy bugs frozen inside. They focus intently as they explore how to use different tools to reveal the hidden objects.

• Children are extremely confident, settled and happy. Staff are exemplary role models and have developed caring and fun relationships with children. They use a variety of techniques to support children's personal and emotional development, including visual aids and other prompts.

• Professional development is extremely important to the management team. The team creates an environment where staff are committed to creating new initiatives to improve their knowledge and support the children. For example, all the staff are learning sign language to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and children who speak English as an additional language.