Jack & Jill’s Childcare Plympton

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The quality of teaching is good. Staff adapt their approach to teaching well to support children to make good progress.

For example, they organise small-group activities so that children are confident to interact with each other as they discuss days of the week, the weather and special celebrations. • Children communicate confidently using sign language and spoken words to greet each other during group time, as staff skilfully model signing for them. • Children play cooperatively, for example they work together to build a cinema out of blocks following a recent visit to the cinema.

They discuss what it will look like, challenge each other's ideas... and successfully complete and explain the different aspects. • Parents feel that their children are well supported. Staff help children to cope and become resilient.

For example, staff show children of service families where their parent is travelling and what the ship they are travelling on looks like. Staff talk about different emotions and give extra time and reassurance as needed. • Parents are kept up to date with progress and information about their children's days.

This helps them feel connected and enables them to be included in their children's learning. • Managers have a good understanding of staff skills and talents. They provide regular supervision and support to develop children's learning experiences.

Children have benefited from the introduction of smaller group targeted activities, with a focus on teaching specific skills such as cutting, sentence building and counting. • Staff do not provide enough challenging physical play opportunities to help children learn how to assess risks for themselves. • Staff do not offer sufficient activities that support children to develop their early writing skills, such as mark making.