Powick Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The experienced and dedicated manager works closely with the committee to ensure the smooth running of the pre-school. • Overall, staff provide an interesting range of activities, indoors and outdoors to capture children's curiosity and to help them make good progress from their starting points.

• The quality of teaching is good and staff use a creative range of strategies to promote children's communication and listening and attention skills. • Partnership with parents is strong and there are good strategies in place to support parents to help their children learn at home and close any gaps in their learning. • Staff place a key priority on promoting chil...dren's emotional well-being and build close relationships with new children to help them settle quickly.

• Staff work closely with other professionals and agencies working with children and their families to promote their welfare and education. It is not yet outstanding because: • The manager and staff do not meticulously use information from children's assessments to help provide highly challenging activities. • Staff do not consistently provide a rich range of activities to help extend children's learning even further in exploring rhythm, number recognition and early calculation.

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