Apple Blossom Pre-School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good Teaching is good.

Staff skilfully interact with children to extend and challenge their play and learning. This means that all children are developing their communication and language skills. Staff treat children and parents with respect and value their individuality.

Parents value the support they receive from staff to meet their child's individual needs and to support their learning. As a result, staff form close, positive relationships with children and parents. Staff work effectively as a team.

They are well deployed, indoors and outside, ensuring children's safety and supporting them in their play and learning. The manager and her comm...itted team show a strong focus and passionate drive to provide high-quality care and education for children. Self-evaluation processes actively contribute to sustaining the effective provision.

Children are happy and confident. They develop warm bonds with their key person. This helps them feel settled, secure and ready to learn.

Children make good progress and develop the skills they need for their future learning. It is not yet outstanding because: At times, staff do not consider the interruption to children's free play and learning when they call them to participate in some of the daily routines. Although the manager has introduced a system for tracking children's progress, this is not yet refined enough to inform more rigorous analysis of the impact of teaching and intervention for different groups of children.

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