Landulph Under Fives

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The new manager is committed to providing high-quality care and education for children. She has already identified many areas she would like to develop and has created targeted action plans to address them. For example, she is keen to introduce regular observations of staff's practice, to give more detailed feedback about their teaching and support their continued professional development.

• Since the last inspection, the manager and staff have worked hard to address the previous recommendations. For instance, they have used the information gained from training well, to develop children's knowledge of shapes and measurement. Children make good progress acr...oss all areas of learning, including mathematics.

• Partnerships with parents are good. The manager and staff routinely share detailed information with parents about upcoming planned activities and children's progress, and invite them to contribute to children's learning records. • Staff know the children well and welcome them warmly at the start of each session.

Children arrive confidently and settle in quickly, happy to see their friends and eager to start playing. It is not yet outstanding because: • The manager and staff do not plan or organise whole-group activities as well as they could, to engage the youngest children routinely and extend the learning of the older children as much as possible. • The manager and provider are in the early stages of using a new system to monitor the progress of groups of children and do not successfully identify all patterns and gaps in learning.