Caterpillas Under Fives

Activities: Children choose their own play from rich and varied resources, interesting activities and enticing places.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff have high expectations and ensure all children make good progress in relation to their starting points.

Communication: Staff and parents regularly share information about children's needs, interests and the progress they make.

Programs and Resources: Disadvantaged children and those with SEND achieve well; staff work closely with other professionals.

Staff Training: Staff are highly skilled in supporting children with SEND.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children receive the warmest welcome from staff who build incredibly close bonds with them.

Safeguarding Training: Leaders ensure that staff have the skills and knowledge to recognise and respond promptly if a child is at risk of harm.

Play and Learning Integration: Children relish making their own discoveries and are supported well by skilful teachers.

Transition to Primary School: Children become highly independent, make choices, and lead their own learning.

Diversity Management: Children from different faiths and cultures play together happily.

Child Safety Management: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective; staff have training on wider issues.

Children's Safety and Security: Children feel valued and secure; quiet or shy children gain confidence and learn to make friends.

Happiness and Settling: Children get on very well with staff, and children from different faiths and cultures play together happily. Children's behaviour is exemplary.