West Hendon Pre School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children benefit from a caring and nurturing learning environment. They settle readily into daily routines and have friends to play with.

Children are pleasant and behave well. • Staff know how children learn and develop through play. Children make good progress in relation to their different starting points.

They are well prepared for the next stages in their learning and development, including starting school. • Children have access to a variety of resources and activities to develop their mathematical skills. For example, older children can count objects, add and subtract from a given number and measure liquid, such as milk.

They deve...lop very good skills to solve problems. • Staff regularly inform parents about their children's progress and well-being, and encourage them to contribute to the planning of their child's learning. • The manager offers ongoing support and professional development to staff.

For example, she regularly monitors staff's work to help ensure consistency in supporting children's learning and care effectively. • Staff do not consistently offer many experiences to extend and build on children's understanding and skills in using everyday technology. • Staff have not yet formed strong partnerships with staff at all of the other settings that children attend, to support consistency of their care and learning.