Oswestry School Prepcare Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Teaching is strong. Some staff's teaching is better than good, especially their promotion of children's outstanding personal, social and emotional development and physical skills.

• The management team's evaluation is precise and accurate. The manager uses the views of others, such as children, to promote continual development. For instance, using children's suggestions, staff have increased children's independence at lunchtime.

Children as young as two years serve their own food and clear away their own plate. • Staff work well with parents from the outset to assess children's progress. They also consider information from staff at previous setti...ngs children attended in their assessments.

• Children are developing well. In some aspects of their learning they achieve beyond the expected levels of development for their age. Children are confident and self-assured learners.

They understand what they have achieved and recognise their own abilities. • Staff work closely with the host school to provide a range of additional learning experiences for children. For example, children take part in forest school sessions and swimming classes.

These have a positive impact on children's learning experiences. For instance, children develop excellent moving and handling skills and an awareness of safety. • Children's behaviour is excellent.

Staff are highly skilled at supporting children to resolve their own minor conflicts independently. • The management team does not precisely use the information obtained about the progress of different groups of children to help rapidly reduce any differences in learning. • The manager has not yet fully embedded the planned changes for staff supervision to help to raise the overall quality of teaching to a consistently outstanding level.