Early Years @ Lightcliffe

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About Early Years @ Lightcliffe


Name Early Years @ Lightcliffe
Inspections
Ofsted Inspections
Address Christchurch - Lightcliffe Site URC, Leeds Road, Lightcliffe, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 8NU
Phase Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises, Sessional day care
Gender Mixed
Local Authority Calderdale
Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff access regular professional development opportunities. For instance, they have recently increased their knowledge of how to develop children's language development and awareness of phonics. This helps them to support children in their readiness for school.

• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported well and make progress. Staff work closely with outside agencies and parents to ensure continuity in children's care and learning. • Staff observe children and regularly monitor their progress by tracking their development.

They use information from assessments and children's interests to support their next steps ...in learning. All children make good progress. • The key-person system is effective.

Staff have positive bonds with children and support their emotional well-being successfully. Children are happy, secure and confident. • The manager monitors the quality of staff practice.

She regularly completes supervisory meetings and observes their interactions with children. Overall, this helps to raise the quality and consistency of teaching. • Generally, partnerships with parents are good.

Parents explain how the newly introduced electronic system allows them to see and contribute to their child's learning regularly. • Occasionally, during group activities, staff do not adapt their teaching to help to ensure that the youngest children are supported as well as possible and are fully involved. • Staff do not collect detailed information from parents about what their children already know and can do in order to inform their initial assessments when children first start.


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