Syderstone Happy Faces Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The management committee is highly involved in the effective running of the playgroup. It works in partnership with staff to achieve their plans for continuous improvement.

• Staff provide children with key vocabulary during activities. For example, they name different natural materials, such as pine cones, and identify different insects on puzzles. This supports children's understanding and language skills.

• Staff enthusiastically praise children and congratulate them on their achievements. Children eagerly ask staff for 'high fives' to celebrate their successes. • Children develop a keen interest in and enjoyment of books.

They enthusi...astically reenact a story about hunting for a bear in the garden and request the story during group time at the end of the session. They repeat familiar refrains and request that staff read the book 'again, again' at the end. • Parents contribute information to children's learning records.

They share photographs of activities children enjoy at home or write about new skills they have observed. It is not yet outstanding because: • Staff are not consistently fully effective in promoting children's independent problem-solving to help them develop their thinking skills. • The current arrangements for monitoring and evaluating staff practice do not focus sharply enough on specific areas for further development, to raise the quality of teaching to the highest level.

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