Triangle Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff know the children and their families very well. Parents are kept well informed of their children's achievements and progress. Staff provide parents with ideas and activities to do with their children at home to help continue their learning.

• Children are happy and confident. They have very good relationships with their key person. They arrive happy and keen to start their day.

All staff interact with children in a calm and reassuring way, staying close and offering support when needed. • The quality of teaching is consistently good. Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are extremely well supported at the pre-school.<...br/>
Staff attend relevant training and work with specialists and parents to ensure children receive appropriate support and are fully included. • Staff skilfully support children's listening, attention and speaking skills. They use props to make stories fun and enjoyable.

Children join in excitedly with well-known phrases and help to make the different animal noises in the story. • Staff support children very well during their transition to school. For example, they form good relationships with local school teachers.

Furthermore, staff ensure children are taught the key skills needed for their future learning. • The supervision arrangements to monitor the quality of teaching and evaluate staff practice do not focus sufficiently on raising the quality of teaching to the highest levels. • Staff do not consistently use the information they gain from parents and their initial assessments of children to precisely target their starting points when they first attend.