Woodhouse Park Family Centre

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The leadership and management of this setting is good. Leaders have created a culture of high aspiration, care and respect that successfully promotes children's well-being.

Children feel valued and are confident, articulate learners. Children behave well and regularly embrace one another with hugs. • The manager has purposefully crafted a unique curriculum, which is based on children's interests and the recognition of their needs.

It keeps children motivated to learn and provides them with the skills they need to be ready for school. • Children are provided with an array of opportunities to be physically active. Children relish these experiences ...and show good physical dexterity as they climb and jump.

They excitedly search for bugs outdoors and sing with delight while making mud pies. • Partnership working is a strength of this good-quality setting. Parents highly value and appreciate the quality of care and support their children receive.

Links with external professionals and the local primary school are rooted in trust and respect. • Self-evaluation is good. Priorities for improvement are sharply focused and include the views of children and parents.

The manager aspires to be outstanding and demonstrates a strong capacity to continually improve and drive forward change. • Mathematics is taught very well. Staff are skilled in supporting children's early understanding of space, shape and measurement.

Children competently count objects, discuss capacity and talk about the properties of two-dimensional shapes. • There are times when staff do not use the correct vocabulary when talking to children. • The manager has not established a highly targeted programme of professional development for staff to raise the quality of teaching to an outstanding level.