Up, Up and Away Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff are well qualified, experienced and ambitious. They work well as a team and strive to continually develop their practice. The manager has clear ongoing plans in place and thinks carefully about how to prioritise improvements to support the best outcomes for children.

• The manager and staff have developed effective partnerships with local schools. Children moving on to school look forward to visits to their new classes. This helps build their confidence, as they become familiar with teachers, the school environment and routines.

• Children choose to spend the majority of their time outdoors. They have many wonderful opportun...ities to be active and to explore the natural environment. Children talk about the effect exercise has on their bodies.

For example, they describe their legs as 'heavy' when they pedal tricycles up a slope. • Staff provide children with many opportunities to explore. Children become absorbed as they experiment, such as when using a variety of materials to make potions.

They explain their thinking, using a wide vocabulary, and develop good communication and language skills. • Staff sometimes miss opportunities to provide additional challenge to the most able children to support them to make even better progress in their learning. • Staff do not consistently track children's overall learning as accurately as they could, in order to help them precisely plan for children's next steps across all areas of development.

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