Pebbles Pre-School & Day Care

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and management committee work closely together and take prompt action to address areas to improve. They implement a rigorous and effective system to monitor the overall quality of the provision.

• The manager supports staff to continue their professional development. She works closely with individual staff members to help them to develop their skills. Staff access a wide range of training and share their knowledge with colleagues to enhance each other's all-round abilities.

• Staff support those children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) well. Staff work closely with parents and other professionals to ensure ch...ildren receive targeted intervention and support. This helps children to make sustained progress.

• Staff promote children's communication and language skills well. They model words for younger children to hear and repeat. They respond to young children's vocalisations.

Older children are confident communicators and learn a wide range of vocabulary. • Children develop good social skills and play cooperatively with their friends. Older children learn to negotiate how to share resources.

Staff quickly intervene with children's disagreements and demonstrate positive behaviour-management techniques to distract children and refocus them in play. • On occasions, staff do not further children's developing interests and ideas during self-chosen play in order to fully extend their learning. • Staff do not provide those children who prefer to learn outdoors with inspirational opportunities to extend their literacy and mathematical skills when playing outside.

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