Withycombe Raleigh Playgroup

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and her staff provide a warm, welcoming and inclusive environment. Children are happy, confident and settle quickly. • Children are developing good imaginations.

They spend time constructing narratives in their play, incorporating ideas from activities, and independently access resources to support this. For example, they pretend to be 'babies' as they 'make vegetable soup for their tea'. • Parents speak highly of the setting and feel their children are developing very well.

They praise the support and wide range of information they receive from staff. • Staff are proactive in helping to promote physical exercise and children's sense ...of wellbeing. For example, they run daily 'move and shake' sessions, and an external visitor runs weekly yoga sessions with all children.

• The motivated manager and staff team have effective systems to evaluate the quality of the setting. They ensure changes and improvements have a positive impact on outcomes for children's learning and development. • Staff provide a range of opportunities that support children to understand how to lead a healthy lifestyle.

For example, children manage knives safely as they cut and prepare vegetables to make soup, and they take part in 'move and shake' sessions to start their day. • On occasions, staff miss opportunities to challenge and extend children's literacy and early writing skills. • At times, the organisation of activities and routines is not adapted quickly enough to engage all children and support their learning across the setting.