Collingham and District Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager and committee have made significant improvements to the pre-school since the last inspection. They support the staff well through supervision meetings.

Staff discuss professional development opportunities to extend their teaching practice to help them improve outcomes for children. • Staff now gather clear information from parents about their child at the start of their placement. This gives staff an understanding of children's individual needs and helps them plan appropriate next steps for their learning.

• Well-qualified staff interact enthusiastically with children. They provide a wide range of activities and resources, which engage... and interest children. Children choose happily from the different activities on offer and appreciate the choices available to them.

• Children are well prepared for their future and starting school. They develop good self-help skills, confidence and independence. Staff patiently encourage them to do things for themselves.

• Staff are good role models. They teach children to build friendships and to behave well. Children play cooperatively together.

They learn to take turns, be polite and are beginning to learn to show respect and tolerance for each other. It is not yet outstanding because: • Management's monitoring of children's progress is not rigorous enough to analyse the progress made by different groups of children. • Occasionally, the planning of adult-led activities is not effective enough to enable children to meet the learning intentions set and to support high quality teaching and learning.