Holbrook and District Pre-school Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff are enthusiastic and reflective. This has a positive impact on the quality of the provision.

Children are happy to arrive, settle quickly and are keen to join in with interesting activities. • Staff encourage children to notice changes in the weather and season. Children choose from a selection of images for their 'today board' to illustrate the weather that day.

This helps to build children's understanding of the world. • Children grow in confidence. They approach staff to help with their creative ideas.

For instance, they ask if staff can help them make a strap for a big drum they have made. Children also begin to... play cooperatively. For instance, they work together to dig a big hole in the sandpit.

• Children develop a love of literacy. They enjoy looking at books in a group and alone. From a young age, children select books, turn the pages and read aloud to themselves.

They also choose books to take home from the setting's library. • Parents appreciate the friendly and welcoming staff. They praise how well their children settle and how happy they are to attend.

Parents comment on the variety of activities and outings that children enjoy. • Initial assessments of children's levels of learning and development do not make the best use of information from parents to identify children's starting points at the earliest possible stage. • Supervision arrangements do not always provide staff with targeted feedback based on evaluations of individual's practice to enhance their personal effectiveness even further.

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