Alpha Pre School Littlehampton

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Children enjoy a safe, welcoming and well-organised learning environment.

Staff provide a stimulating range of activities, indoors and outdoors, which reflects children's interests. Children are motivated and eager learners, and make good progress in their development from their starting points. The manager and staff assess children's development closely and accurately monitor the progress they make.

They quickly identify and address any gaps in children's learning, including in different groups of children. There are positive systems in place to provide additional support for funded children, such as by developing the outdoor environment for child...ren who learn best outdoors. Staff are very friendly and caring and children feel happy, settled and secure.

Children enjoy positive relationships with all staff and happily include others in their play. Parents are made very welcome and kept well informed. Staff successfully involve them in their children's learning.

For example, they invite them to regular reviews and offer valuable suggestions for activities to continue children's learning at home. It is not yet outstanding because: The monitoring of staff practice is not fully effective in raising the quality of teaching to a consistently outstanding level. At times, staff do not consistently follow up behaviour issues with children in the best way, meaning children do not always recognise how their behaviour can affect others.