Noah’s Ark Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The manager and staff are a committed team. They successfully create a safe, supportive and welcoming environment. Children have built up very strong attachments with staff and their emotional well-being is very well supported.

Parents praise staff and comment that they are caring, friendly and skilled. Regular observations of children's learning are accurate and challenging next steps are set to provide children with relevant and highly motivating learning experiences. This helps to improve outcomes for children.

Staff place a strong focus on supporting children's communication and language development. They use a variety of successful strategies ...to enhance children's skills in speaking and understanding, including for children who speak English as an additional language. The manager and staff reflect on the overall quality of the pre-school and identify targets for the year ahead.

This helps drive improvements in the quality of care, teaching and learning. It is not yet outstanding because: Ofsted has not been provided with the required information to check the suitability of all committee members. Arrangements are not fully in place to liaise with all other settings that children attend to fully support and complement their care and learning experiences.