Eastern Green Pre-School Playgroup

Activities: Superb variety of activities on offer wonderfully support all areas of the children's development and provides them with a vast amount of choice.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children's understanding of the importance of oral health is fantastically promoted.

Communication: Despite parents not entering the pre-school to collect their children, staff work extremely hard to help to ensure parents understand the experiences that their children have during their time spent in the pre-school.

Community Building: Parents overwhelmingly applaud all aspects of the service. They enthusiastically express how brilliant the care and education is for their children who currently attend.

Programs and Resources: The curriculum intent is also highly ambitious and effective in ensuring that children with additional needs get the support they need to make maximum progress in relation to their starting points.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children are confident and articulate individuals. During group time, the deputy manager suggested the children find out what the inspector's name is. Children were extremely keen to take on this task and find out. They immediately stand up, approach the inspector and introduce themselves.

Safeguarding Training: Three senior members of the team have accessed training to support them in acting as the designated safeguarding leader. Frequent discussions during team meetings ensure all staff keep their safeguarding knowledge up to date.

Play and Learning Integration: Children swiftly separate from their parents and are eager to get inside the preschool to begin their learning. Children immediately seek out and engage in playing with their friends, who they share extremely strong friendships with.

Transition to Primary School: Parents share they were fantastically supported to be school ready with seamless transitions on to school.

Child Safety Management: Risk assessments are highly effective, and all identified potential risks to children have been minimised. Security of the premises is excellent.

Children's Safety and Security: Children learn how to keep themselves safe through managed risks in their play, that are fully supervised by staff.

Happiness and Settling: Children thoroughly enjoy a wonderful range of role-play opportunities. They care for dolls by dressing them to keep them warm when they take them outdoors in a pushchair. Children pretend to cook on a pretend hob with fresh produce, such as vegetables.