Kinlet Family Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff use an effective range of strategies to involve parents. The active parent members on the committee share their views and help to shape the service on offer.

Staff provide good guidance to each parent to encourage them to support their children's learning at home. • Teaching is good. Staff place a strong focus on increasing children's listening and attention skills, and promote their communication and language skills well.

• Staff adopt an inclusive approach and work closely with other professionals working with children. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported during activities to help them take par...t, and the environment is adapted where necessary. • Staff provide a rich range of opportunities for children to be physical outdoors and to learn about the natural world.

• Staff know the children well and prioritise supporting their emotional well-being to help them settle and increase their confidence and independence. • The new manager's monitoring of staff practice is not highly focused on raising the quality of individual staff's teaching to an exceptional level. • Staff do not always make the very best use of children's assessment information to identify very precisely how they will extend children's learning to the highest level, particularly in their mathematical development.