Holybourne Village Pre-school

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager recognises and builds on the many strengths of her capable staff team. She seeks and respects the views of staff, children and their parents, and plans ambitious improvements as she continues to raise practice across the pre-school. • The manager monitors children's achievements carefully to check that every child makes good rates of progress across all areas of their learning and development.

Staff provide children with a considerable amount of individual attention and teaching. • Staff help children to understand that their individual views are important and to be respected. For example, children share their opinions and add their vote to a ...question of the day.

They begin to understand that they may not always hold the majority view in a democracy. • Children develop a good understanding of making healthy choices. For instance, staff support them in learning how to make healthy choices when deciding what to take from their lunch boxes to eat first.

In addition, staff model good table manners to children. Children enjoy choosing nutritious snacks and eat a diverse range of fruit. They make good judgements about balancing different types of food.

• Staff have not fully considered different ways for children to practise their early writing skills, such as during imaginative play to help them write for a purpose. • Staff do not focus precisely enough on challenging children's thinking. For example, they do not fully challenge children to consider how to plan to do things, solve problems or to review how well an approach worked.