Tiddlywinks Pre School (Bessacarr)

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Children are keen learners and enjoy exploring the welcoming learning environment the staff create. Staff encourage children to choose their own activities, have their own ideas and join in with creative projects alongside the staff. Staff know children well and observe their play to find out what interests them and what they can do.

Staff regularly share accurate assessments of children's learning with parents and use these to identify what children need to learn next. Children form very secure attachments to staff and their good behaviour makes them feel safe. They are confident and older children show that they have the social skills they need to take tu...rns well and play together imaginatively.

Staff work closely with parents and other professionals to meet the needs of individual children who attend. They share strategies to support children's behaviour and confidence and to develop their communication and language skills. Children enjoy learning through their play.

Staff talk to children about what they are doing and ask them some questions that make them think. It is not yet outstanding because: Managers do not make full use of information about children's development to help them make sure all groups of children make consistently high rates of progress. The evaluations of staff's interactions with children are not always sharply focused enough to raise the quality of teaching to the very highest level.