The Crescent II Kindergarten

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Staff provide an excellent range of vibrant, very interesting activities based exceptionally well on all areas of learning. They carry out thorough assessments of children's progress and make highly effective use of this information to ensure that children are highly challenged.

Children make superb progress. • Staff are exceptionally effective at managing children's behaviour. For instance, they teach children to try to resolve any differences themselves and children are very well mannered.

Children's behaviour is outstanding. • Staff teach children excellent healthy routines related to food, drink and exercise. For instance, children dri...nk fresh water and know that it helps to clear toxins from the body.

Staff provide healthy fruit snacks for them. • Staff have exceptional relationships with parents and others regarding children's care and learning. They use a variety of very effective methods to ensure that parents have regular updates on their children's progress, such as regular parent meetings, diaries and daily verbal feedback.

• The manager gives superb levels of support to staff and is deeply committed to their professional development. Staff have attended a very wide range of courses, including supporting children's speech and language, which has led to highly effective practice in this area. • The manager recognises that the outdoor provision could be enhanced even more to support children's learning even further to aid those who learn best outdoors.