Treasures Of Duston

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The ambitious manager provides effective leadership; she is committed to continuous improvements.

She has put in place many recent improvements that are beginning to have a positive impact on children's outcomes. For example, parents are using the provided information sheets to further support their children's learning at home. • Staff working with the younger children are particularly skilled at supporting children's communication and language skills.

They are very attentive to children's individual ways of communicating and respond enthusiastically. Staff help children learn new words and create sentences. • Staff provide interesting activities ...based on children's interest, this helps to engage children well.

• All children are gaining the skills that help prepare them for the next stage in their learning and school. It is not yet outstanding because: • Pre-school staff do not make full use of their assessment of children's learning to meticulously plan highly challenging activities to help children reach the highest levels in their learning. • The monitoring of assessment information for groups of learners, such as for children with English as an additional language, is not fully in place to help target support as well as possible.