Playtime Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Managers accurately evaluate the effectiveness of the nursery to help drive improvement and improve outcomes for all children. For example, additional funding is used to provide specialist teaching in dance, drama and storytelling which supports and extends children's learning well. • Staff plan a good range of activities linked to children's needs and interests.

All children are well supported and make good progress from their starting points. • Partnerships with parents are effective and parents speak highly of staff, saying that they help meet children's needs. Staff share relevant information with parents about children's learning and invite parents t...o share what they know.

• Staff have established warm, caring relationships with children who are secure, happy and independent. Children are eager to learn and are thoroughly interested in play. • The provider effectively supports staff's ongoing professional development.

For example, she carries out regular supervision meetings and offers further training. • Although teaching and assessment are effective overall, arrangements to monitoring the progress made by groups of children are not as precise as possible. • Staff do not always recognise when children need more time to form their responses to questions.