Tamar Valley Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • The highly experienced leaders and managers demonstrate a wonderful dedication to the families of children who attend the pre-school. The clearly defined values and ethos of the pre-school help to ensure that they achieve shared goals for future improvements, using an exceptional collaborative approach. • Managers actively reflect on and evaluate high-quality teaching methods.

They implement extremely effective in-house training which contributes to the outstanding provision. The well-qualified team skilfully adapts learning to follow children's interests and considers children's progress from the child's perspective. • The curriculum provides a ra...nge of high-quality activities which broadens children's awareness of culture and diversity beyond their own experience.

For example, the preschool staff have endeavoured to establish strong links with other local community groups and services. • All staff have extremely high expectations of children. They fully understand, and superbly meet, the needs of the children and their families within their learning community.

For example, events to promote water safety help to ensure parents and children learn how to stay safe in the local area exceptionally well. • Partnerships with parents and carers are excellent. Parents speak very highly of the pre-school, and value the inclusive approach.

They actively share their views, for instance, through routine questionnaires. This information helps to inform the comprehensive and exhaustive self-reflection tools and targeted improvements conducted by the manager. • Children who speak English as an additional language are well supported.

For example, the children have weekly Spanish sessions, they listen to nursery rhymes in Spanish and interact with displays that are labelled with dual languages. There is a concerted approach to actively address barriers to learning, ensuring first-class inclusion. • The excellent opportunities for parents and children to contribute to their learning and development are not yet fully extended at home.