Leven Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The management team operates an effective staff development strategy, ensuring that opportunities are readily available for practitioners to build their professional knowledge and skills. This helps to improve the teaching and positively impacts on the children's learning.

• Managers and practitioners are positive role models. They teach children how to treat others with courtesy and respect. Children develop good manners and understand the importance of sharing with their friends.

• Relationships between staff and children are very positive. This contributes to children's high levels of emotional development and overall learning. • The manager a...nd practitioners take time to engage parents and capture their views.

This helps to support children's continuity of learning and has a positive impact on the families and children that attend the pre-school. • A well-established key-person system helps promote children's welfare and emotional development well and children form very secure attachments. • The manager and deputy manager are providing a clear vision of what they want to achieve and communicate this well to all staff.

They engage with the local authority to help staff to raise the quality of care and learning opportunities for all children. • Strategies to support and train committee members are not yet fully effective to ensure that children's learning and development are maintained at the highest standards. • The staff need to continue to develop the monitoring system of tracking children in specific groups to enable staff to extend the outcomes of all children to the highest level.