Happitots Community Pre School

Activities: They arrange for firefighters and police officers to speak to the children. Children use their equipment, such as the fire hose.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children make good progress in their development and gain skills for future learning.

Communication: The manager seeks the views of parents and has provided them with more information about their children's learning during the day from the feedback received.

Programs and Resources: Staff have individual plans in place to support children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children arrive confidently and are keen to talk to staff about the objects and toys they bring from home.

Safeguarding Training: Staff attend training courses that help them to manage children's behaviour and to talk to them about their feelings.

Play and Learning Integration: Children develop good hand-to-eye coordination when they transfer water from one jug to another, working together with their friends and demonstrating good social skills.

Transition to Primary School: The manager and staff work well with the host school. They take children to use some of the school facilities and invite teachers into the pre-school to see the children.

Child Safety Management: Staff ask parents to sign their children in to the pre-school when they arrive. They have measures in place to ensure that children leave at the end of the day with a suitable adult. This promotes their safety.

Happiness and Settling: This demonstrates the close relationships children have with staff, showing that they are emotionally secure.

Nutritional Menu: The manager and staff offer children healthy snacks. They help children to learn about how food is cooked on an open fire.