Holway Community Pre-school

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children make good progress, relative to their starting points. Although some children are below expected developmental levels on entry in their speech and language, staff's good skills in promoting this area of learning help them to catch up and achieve.

• Staff's highly effective relationships with other professionals and with parents help ensure children with special educational needs and/or disabilities receive very good support to help them achieve well. • Self-evaluation is thorough and helps the manager prioritise improvements that have the most positive impact on outcomes for children. For example, improving the quality of information gained from ...parents before children first attend means staff are more able to engage children in play from the start and they settle more quickly.

• Children are confident and have good self-esteem. Their good relationships with each other and their close attachments to staff show they feel emotionally secure. • New committee members have not submitted information to Ofsted so their suitability can be checked, as required.

However, the setting does not allow them to take up their role until confirmation of suitability is received from Ofsted, so safeguarding remains effective. • Some planned activities do not engage younger children effectively. For example, activities to teach children about letters and sounds are at times too complex for the younger children.

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