Emmanuel Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The manager works very well with her staff team to provide a nurturing and welcoming environment for the children who attend.

The staff regularly discuss the success of the activities they provide and how they could develop these to extend children's learning. Children make good progress. Older children are learning the skills they need for their imminent move on to school.

Staff are proactive and work well in partnership with the local schools. They invite the teachers to visit children and discuss their individual needs. They arrange for children to visit their new school.

The qualified staff make excellent use of their local community t...o help children to learn about where they live. For instance, they take them on lots of walks to nearby parks and the river. Children thoroughly enjoy these visits.

They climb, explore and use their senses to investigate the wildflowers and identify different types of leaves. Children are quickly developing their independence. They do lots of things for themselves and staff help them to learn about their own self-care.

Children pour their own drinks, cut fruit to eat and learn about why they need to wear sun hats on a hot day. It is not yet outstanding because: Although staff often help children to say numbers in order and count objects, they occasionally miss opportunities to help older children solve mathematical problems. Staff do not enhance children's early reading skills to the highest level.

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