Stutton Young Explorers

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The senior management team are very focused on driving improvement and providing children and their families with the highest-quality provision. • Staff benefit from an effective and well-established programme of professional development to help them continually improve their knowledge, understanding and practice. Effective systems of performance management and regular supervision meetings provide staff with feedback about ways of improving their practice.

• Some aspects of teaching are outstanding. The senior management team are excellent role models for less experienced staff. • Children are exceptionally well prepared for school.

Older childre...n benefit from the opportunity to spend three mornings a week in the on-site school early years classroom. They join the Reception class children for routines, such as choosing a book from the school library and taking part in story time read by the Reception teacher. Children display excellent levels of confidence and familiarity in the school environment.

• Parents are highly complimentary about the staff team. Parents particularly praise how well informed they are and how this helps them to support their child's learning at home in ways that would not have occurred to them. • Children are making progress which sometimes exceeds that expected for their age.

Older children, in particular, display skills higher than normally expected for their age. • Occasionally, staff teaching is not as fully focused as it could be, such as during changes in routines. At these times teaching is not consistently of the highest quality to ensure every child undertakes highly challenging activities.

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