Penn Road Children’s Centre Early Years Service

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The well-qualified staff team provide a vast range of activities that promote children's enjoyment exceptionally well and encourage them to become highly motivated to learn. They work exceptionally well with parents to help children to settle and become very confident and self-assured. • The manager and staff assess and monitor the overall progress that all children make closely.

This enables her to identify any gaps in children's learning quickly. She supports staff effectively in implementing plans to help children to catch up if necessary. All children make at least good progress from their individual starting points.

• Children relish being o...utdoors. The setting has made significant improvements to the outdoor environment, so that those children who prefer to learn outside can develop across all areas of learning. Children eagerly explore the immense selection of excellent quality resources with supreme confidence and have great fun as they learn.

• Children behave extremely well. They delight in playing alongside other children and respond positively to the interactions from adults. They are exceptionally polite, use excellent manners and respect that sometimes they must wait their turn.

Children learn to value and respect others highly. • Occasionally, staff do not recognise when some activities can be extended further to challenge children at the highest level. • Although staff receive regular training and managers make good use of annual appraisals to monitor staff performance, there is scope to develop the ongoing supervision of staff even further, to help raise the already good teaching to an even higher level.