Cobtree Playschool For Special Children

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff work closely with parents and other professionals to provide consistency and focus in children's care and development. They work effectively together to observe children's progress, share information and plan their next steps. All children make at least good progress from their individual levels of achievement.

• Staff and volunteers are exceptionally caring and build strong relationships with all children. Children are extremely well settled in the warm, comfortable and welcoming environment. They are very happy and thoroughly enjoy their time in the playschool.

• Children partake in a wide range of regular physical activit...ies, regardless of their mobility, to keep them active and to provide them with appropriate physical challenges. • The manager accurately evaluates the playschool. For instance, they now include parents in reviewing and contributing ideas to enhance the setting.

• Although new staff undertake an induction, the programme is not yet of the highest quality to minimise any minor gaps in their understanding of their role and responsibilities. • The monitoring of staff performance is not fully effective to identify clearly how all individual staff members can raise the quality of their teaching to the highest level. • All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make good progress in their learning and development, based on their starting points.