Wingle-Tye Pre-School Ltd

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

Staff greet children and their parents warmly when they arrive at this pre-school. Relationships are warm and caring. Children settle quickly because they know the routines of the pre-school well. An effective key-person system ensures that staff are aware of children's interests and that the activities they provide engage them quickly. Staff plan a curriculum to support all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), to make progress in their learning and development.

Children are happy at the pre-school. They behave well because staff teach them the rules and boundaries of the pre-school. They like to be helpful by washing their plates and cups after snack and putting rubbish in the correct recycling container. Children learn about how to be healthy and about the importance of cleaning their teeth. They are thoughtful and are caring towards their friends and the adults working in the pre-school. For example, children wrap up presents in the Santa's workshop area and hand them to the staff. They are thrilled as staff respond excitedly to the gifts they have given them and they repeat this gesture for all the adults.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

• Leaders are aware they have failed to notify Ofsted of the appointment of a new director of the company. However, there is no impact on children as this individual has not yet taken this role fully. Although the provider has carried out suitability checks on this individual, these checks are the responsibility of Ofsted.
• Children are enthusiastic about books at the pre-school. They enjoy reading on their own or with friends. When staff read stories with children, they pause to let children finish the next word on the page. They ask children what they think and what was their favourite part of the story and use actions to show what is happening in the story as they read.
• Staff know children well. Where children have difficulties with communication, staff tune into what they are saying and give them time to make sure they understand what they want to say. Children with SEND make progress in their learning because staff identify any gaps in learning. Staff put in additional support to help children to make progress in these areas.
• Children enjoy learning about numbers. They pick up number cards from the table and tell staff what they are. However, there are times when staff do not further support children to develop their mathematics skills. For example, children practise hopscotch and want to go backwards, which would support them to count down. However, staff tell them to come back to the beginning to start at one without helping children to develop skills of counting backwards and early subtraction skills.
• Children engage in a range of physical activities both indoors and outside. Staff teach children about healthy and unhealthy food they can eat. For example, they look at pictures of different foods including pineapples and burgers and the children decide which are healthy or not. They engage in a discussion about whether a burger is healthy or not. Staff share guidance with parents on lunch ideas and encourage them to bring in balanced lunches.
• Parents and grandparents say they are very happy with the care provided by the staff and leaders at the pre-school. They report that communication is good and that they are well informed about how their child is getting on and they feel they are supported as parents. Staff ensure there are effective communication systems in place with other settings children attend.
• Staff feel well supported by leaders at the pre-school. Leaders identify areas for improvements and support staff to consider improvements they can make to activities. For example, when staff lead an activity for children to ice biscuits, the manager observes that this activity should have had clearer focus on learning rather than the final product. The manager identifies this as an area of focus for staff to ensure they are clear about the learning intention for all children.