Queensway Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The pre-school manager is extremely well qualified and has an expert knowledge and understanding of early years and how children learn. The equally invested staff share the manager's uncompromising drive to provide the highest levels of care and education for all children.

• The pursuit of excellence is demonstrated in the manager and staff's tireless focus on sustained improvement across all areas of provision. Ongoing and incisive self-evaluation includes the views of staff, parents and children, and leads to targeted and highly impactful enhancement of the pre-school. • The learning environment is truly captivating and provides children with an ...abundance of learning opportunities, inside and outdoors.

Innovative, inspiring and highly engaging resources and experiences help children become deeply absorbed in their learning. Children show exceptionally high levels of motivation to learn, and with outstanding teaching from staff, they make rapid progress in their learning. • Children actively contribute to the culture of cooperation, fairness and respect successfully embedded within the pre-school.

For example, children suggest using the sand timer during play with their peers, demonstrating extraordinary levels of self-control and the ability to solve problems harmoniously. • Support for children's communication is outstanding and staff demonstrate exceptionally high aspirations for what all children can achieve. The pre-school has been involved in various campaigns and targeted intervention programmes aimed at promoting children's communication and literacy skills both in the setting and at home.

This has significantly promoted partnership working and continued learning at home. • Children are greatly supported to recognise and manage their own health and hygiene needs. The wonderfully resourced 'sniffle station' allows children to look at themselves as they wipe their nose, includes a bin to dispose of the tissues, books on germs to aid their understanding and talking instructions to remind children what to do.