The Fledglings

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Leaders and managers provide effective training and development opportunities for staff, which keeps their skills up to date.

For example, staff caring for the babies have used their knowledge from recent training to create an exciting learning environment for babies to explore. • Children benefit from a wealth of outdoor learning opportunities. For example, they thoroughly enjoy visiting animals, such as the emu and alpacas, that live on the college campus.

Children venture on trips in the surrounding woodland, which helps them to learn about nature. These experiences also help children to develop a good understanding of risks, for example as th...ey climb trees and visit the beekeeper on the honey farm. • All children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) make good progress from their starting points.

This is particularly evident in their early mathematical development, which is promoted well throughout the nursery. • On the odd occasion, staff do not always consistently model good writing. For example, staff sometimes write children's names and words in capital letters, which does not help children to recognise the correct letters.

• Occasionally, during free play, some of the children in pre-school are not always engaged in activities. This sometimes disrupts the play and learning for some of their peers. • The new systems for analysing groups of children, such as the most able and preschool boys, are not yet sufficiently embedded to identify steps to take, to better meet their differing needs.

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