Upton St Mary’s Pre-School Playgroup.

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff develop strong relationships with parents. Parents speak extremely positively about staff and state that children enjoy attending.

Parents are kept fully informed of their children's progress. They comment on the excellent guidance they receive on supporting their children's learning and development at home. For instance, they describe borrowing books to help children to manage their feelings and resources to develop their mathematical skills.

• Staff give consistently high priority to children's well-being. Parents describe staff's pastoral care as second to none. Staff tailor settling-in arrangements to parents' and children's individual ...needs.

This helps staff to get to know children well. As a result, children form strong bonds with staff and feel secure. • The dedicated manager and her supportive staff are passionate about the pre-school and evaluate the provision in detail.

They seek the views of parents and others to support them with this process. This helps them to make decisions on enhancing the provision further. For example, they plan to develop the outdoor area to provide even more opportunities for children to investigate.

• Children are exceptionally well behaved and kind to each other. This is illustrated when they are willing get off bicycles to enable their friends to have a turn. They listen politely as their friends talk during group discussions.

• Staff regularly monitor children's learning and development. They quickly identify children who require additional support. They work effectively with health professionals to implement well-coordinated strategies.

This helps children to catch up and make good progress. • Staff occasionally do not give children enough time to respond to questions or develop their ideas. • Staff do not consistently gather information from other settings that children attend in order to support their learning as effectively as possible.