Devon Close Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Children make good progress from their starting points, including children who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities.

Staff use children's interests to support and extend their learning and development and provide good levels of challenge. Staff support children to develop good social skills. For instance, children offer to help others to open packaging during lunchtime and remind them that they need to say 'yes please'.

Children are well behaved, play together cooperatively and develop close friendships. They are motivated and enthusiastic learners. The manager and staff provide a broad range of stimulating activities and experi...ences to promote children's learning in the attractive, well-resourced pre-school environment.

Children have good opportunities to play and continue their learning outdoors. Parents speak very highly of the pre-school and are happy with the care their children receive. They report that staff are welcoming and share regular information with them, including ideas for activities for them to do at home.

This helps to provide consistency in their children's learning and development. It is not yet outstanding because: Monitoring of staff professional practice is not rigorous enough to focus on ways to extend teaching skills even further. At times, staff do not give children sufficient time to form their responses or express their ideas, before providing answers for them.