Grasshopper Club

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff are excellent role models to children. Children behave extremely well and have positive attitudes towards others.

• Partnerships with parents are outstanding. Staff are dedicated and aspire to offer the best for children and their families. Parents speak extremely positively about the preschool.

They feel very welcome and involved in their children's experiences. • The provision for outdoor learning is particularly strong. Staff provide a well-resourced, stimulating environment to support children of all ages to learn independently.

Children are active outdoors each day in the exceptionally well-organised area. This supports their ...development well across all areas of the curriculum. • The pre-school has strong, well-established links with the community.

Staff develop professional relationships with other providers, including the local schools. They regularly exchange information, which helps to ensure that there is consistency and continuity for children's care and learning. • The highly qualified staff team carefully observes and assesses children's learning.

Staff use this information to identify any gaps in children's development and implement effective next step learning targets with parents. • Staff are deployed well and supervise children closely, supporting them to take manageable risks in their play. • Professional development is not sufficiently focused on raising the quality of teaching to a consistently high level.

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