The Learning Tree Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • Staff provide an exceptionally warm and nurturing environment. Children settle with ease and thoroughly enjoy exploring the extensive range of resources and activities on offer. • Children make good progress.

Staff have a secure understanding of how children learn and plan interesting learning opportunities to support their ongoing development. • Staff have effective partnerships with parents and other settings that children attend. They understand the importance of sharing and gaining information from others to help provide a consistent approach to children's learning.

• Staff support children's communication skills well. Older children are asked... a varied range of questions which enables them to think and describe, while younger children benefit from a language-rich environment with lots of repetition and encouragement of key words. • The management team continuously strives for excellence and is committed to gaining feedback from parents and children to help drive improvements.

It is not yet outstanding because: • Occasionally, staff do not challenge children further or test their knowledge of number to enable them to make even better progress in this area. • At times, some activities are very popular with children which means the group size is large. Therefore, staff are not always able to target individual children's learning during these occasional times.

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