Laurels Playschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager and staff provide children with a rich and varied range of interesting and challenging activities that enthuse and ignite children's curiosity and thirst for learning. Children are motivated and engaged in their learning. They choose what they want to play with and are encouraged to explore and use their own ideas as they play.

All children make good progress from their initial starting points. • The playschool is extremely warm and welcoming. The environment is bright, thoughtfully designed and resourced well.

Staff are wonderful role models who demonstrate polite, kind and caring behaviour. They encourage children to behave well and ...develop good social skills. Staff offer children an abundance of praise and encouragement as children try new things and persevere in their chosen tasks.

This helps to support children's self-esteem and develop children's confidence. • Staff provide regular opportunities to engage parents in their children's learning. For example, they have daily discussions, hold parent meetings and share children's plans for learning.

Parents are extremely complimentary about the playschool and speak highly of the support that the staff provide. It is not yet outstanding because: • The management team have not fully developed opportunities for staff to learn and share best practice with each other, to raise the good quality of teaching to an even higher level. • Although children's individual progress is tracked effectively, methods to monitor the progress of different groups of children are still in their infancy.