Thorverton Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The manager is ambitious and works effectively to provide good-quality care and education for young children.

She evaluates the overall setting well and creates clear action plans to drive improvement. For example, she intends to strengthen the support she provides for individual staff members, such as by observing and reflecting on their practice. Staff use the detailed information gained from their observations and assessments effectively, to help children make good progress from their starting points.

They provide a broad range of experiences that supports children to explore, experiment and test out their ideas. Children are intrigued by the av...ailable opportunities and motivated to learn. Staff and parents work closely together to support children's learning.

For example, parents share 'wow moments' to inform staff of children's achievements at home. Staff provide particularly good emotional support for children who are preparing to start school. For instance, children share the school grounds and join the Reception class for some activities.

Older children feel confident about the next stage of their learning. It is not yet outstanding because: The manager does not use the information she collects as well as she could, to identify all gaps and patterns in learning between different groups of children and to support staff to provide targeted and focused teaching where it is needed. Staff do not consistently challenge the older children as well as they could, to extend their early reading and writing skills and their knowledge of numbers and counting.

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