Green Lane Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Managers and staff have a strong understanding of their safeguarding responsibilities. They efficiently implement a range of records, documents and policies that helps to support their practice.

The pre-school is clean, safe and secure. Children's welfare is fostered at a good level. • Staff are warm, friendly and kind.

They get to know children well using the pre-school settling-in process. They are sensitive to children's individual care needs. Children quickly become settled, happy and content attending.

• The pre-school is welcoming, vibrant and very well laid out, indoors and outside. Children are curious, inquisitive and highly moti...vated to play, explore and learn. • Children learn to behave well.

They listen to staff and readily follow directions. Staff manage children's behaviour positively. They support children to follow the pre-school rules and participate in the daily routines.

• Teaching is strong. Staff routinely observe children and make accurate assessments of their abilities. The planning is well thought out.

Staff provide children with a variety of age appropriate activities. This helps to promote good progress. • The pre-school's special educational needs coordinator is highly knowledgeable.

Children who have special educational needs and children who speak English as an additional language are supported incredibly well. These children make exceptional progress from where they started. It is not yet outstanding because: • Managers understand the importance of tracking children's progress and have developed systems to do so.

However, they do not make the most effective use of these systems to help promote consistently excellent attainment for all groups of children throughout the pre-school. • Partnerships with parents are established and overall, parents are happy with the preschool. However, staff do not always highly engage all parents in their children's learning to help promote excellent continuity between the setting and home.