St George’s Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children display high levels of independence, trust and curiosity. This is because staff implement the key-person system well. Children make friends and build strong and meaningful relationships with their key person and familiar staff.

• Staff take extremely good steps to share information with parents about the progress their children make in their learning. They provide guidance and ideas for children to continue their learning at home. • Staff know and understand how to observe the achievements children make in their learning.

They are familiar with using this information to track the progress children make. • Staff work together effectively ...as a coordinated team. They demonstrate a passionate approach in supporting children's welfare and development.

• Although staff and leaders closely monitor the progress made by children, they do not always use this information to focus their planning precisely on what children need to learn next. • Some staff are not as highly skilled as others, in providing rich and varied activities and learning experiences that help all children to make as much progress as possible. • At times, staff do not always place a high enough focus on promoting children's understanding of mathematics as they play and talk together.