St Leonard’s Pre-School, Oakley

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff implement an effective key-person system to support younger children's emotional needs well. This helps those children who are new to the setting to gain confidence in their new surroundings and build positive relationships with staff and each other. • Older children develop good independence skills as staff help them learn how to manage some daily routines for themselves.

This helps them gain skills that prepare them well for their eventual move to school. • Staff are well qualified, knowledgeable and experienced. The manager and staff regularly evaluate the pre-school and identify how to make improvements that benefit children.

For instanc...e, recent changes to the indoor environment have enhanced play choices for those children who prefer quieter activities. • Staff promote children's communication and language skills well. They introduce new language in children's play and explain the meaning of new words they use.

All children, including those in receipt of additional funding, make good progress in their learning. It is not yet outstanding because: • The information staff gain from parents when children start attending is not consistently detailed enough to help them identify children's starting points in learning swiftly and precisely. • The monitoring of groups of children is not fully developed to check rigorously on their progress and raise children's achievement to the highest level.