Whitley Community Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The leadership team has effective systems in place to monitor and evaluate the overall quality of their provision.

They seek feedback from staff, children and parents and use this to inform improvements. • The key-person system is highly effective. Staff know individual children exceptionally well and are highly responsive to their needs.

Sensitive arrangements are made to ensure children settle with ease. Staff provide parents and children with information to take home. This helps to support attachments effectively.

• Staff use regular observations to assess each child's level of development. Children's language and communication skills... are supported well by staff. They use a range of strategies to promote children's language, speaking and listening skills.

Children make very good progress in this area of learning. • Staff create a safe, warm and nurturing environment. Children have a wide range of resources to select independently indoors and outdoors.

They are encouraged to follow their interests and make decisions. • The monitoring of staff practice is not yet sharply focused on raising the quality of teaching to the highest level. • At times, staff do not use opportunities that arise to provide older and more-able children with more challenge to extend their good progress even further.