Southwick Pre-School Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff work hard to create a welcoming, inviting learning environment for children. They make good use of the outdoor area to offer interesting new challenges for children, who can choose to play indoors or outdoors throughout the day. • Children are happy and settle quickly.

They have good relationships with staff and each other. Staff meet all children's individual needs well and provide effective support for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. • Staff plan and provide a varied range of stimulating activities and experiences for children based on a good knowledge of their interests, abilities and needs.

Children are e...ager to join in and are motivated to learn. They make good progress in their development from their starting points. • The manager and staff reflect on the provision and make changes that have a positive impact on children.

For instance, they have reviewed their planning to make it more responsive to children's interests. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff have not developed highly effective strategies for supporting all parents to further extend their child's learning at home, to help develop an even closer shared approach. • The arrangements for supporting and developing staff are not consistently rigorous enough to help raise the quality of practice to an even higher level.