Puddleduck Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is outstanding • Leaders monitor and track the progress of individual children and different groups of children extremely well.

This enables them to identify any gaps in learning rapidly and provide exceptionally good support for children to catch up quickly to maintain their outstanding progress in their learning and development. • Leaders have established extraordinarily positive partnerships with parents and keep them extremely well informed of their children's learning. Staff provide regular planned events for parents to attend.

For example, regular progress meetings take place, allowing practitioners to discuss the finer details for their child's devel...opment and give excellent ideas for parents to extend learning at home. • Children have excellent opportunities to respect and understand the similarities and differences of people in the wider world. They thoroughly enjoy an extensive range of interesting activities, for example, they learn about different cultural festivals, such as harvest, and how these are celebrated in other countries.

• Staff establish exceptional relationships with children and get to know them extremely well. Children are incredibly happy and confident, and have outstanding levels of wellbeing. • Children develop impressive early writing skills.

Older children independently write relevant upper-and lower-case letters with great confidence. • All children communicate extremely confidently. For example, they are exceptionally enthusiastic to share their dinosaurs and soldiers, and discuss their fantasies with their friends.