Escrick Pre-School Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The newly appointed manager and staff team are highly ambitious and driven to provide a high-quality service for children and their families. They regularly seek feedback from parents and use this to identify areas to improve.

Self-evaluation is effective. • Staff build excellent relationships with children. They carefully listen and respond to what children say and do during play.

Staff use this information to plan stimulating, engaging and open-ended activities and play equipment. Children immerse themselves completely and maintain their focus and attention during play. • Children's behaviour is exemplary.

They share, take turns and le...arn to negotiate their own ideas with friends. Children resolve conflict with little support from adults and demonstrate they are incredibly kind and considerate towards others. Staff model this well with their warm, kind and friendly approach.

• Partnerships with parents and other professionals are very successful. Staff work collaboratively and regularly share key information about a child's learning and development. They use this information to help identify effective teaching strategies and consistently support a child's learning both in the setting and at home.

Children make good rates of progress. • The manager has not yet implemented her plans to extend opportunities for children to learn more about the differences between people and communities. • The manager has not yet fully embedded the new system used to record observations and assessments of children's progress, to ensure these are consistently and clearly logged.