Queensway Pre-School

Activities: Innovative, inspiring and highly engaging resources and experiences help children become deeply absorbed in their learning.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children show exceptionally high levels of motivation to learn, and with outstanding teaching from staff, they make rapid progress in their learning.

Communication: Promoting children's communication and literacy skills both in the setting and at home has significantly promoted partnership working and continued learning at home.

Programs and Resources: Support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities is exceptional.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: The pre-school manager is extremely well qualified and has an expert knowledge and understanding of early years and how children learn.

Safeguarding Training: Staff have an excellent knowledge of safeguarding procedures and are extremely confident in responding to concerns about a child's safety or welfare.

Play and Learning Integration: Staff plan largely 'in the moment' and use their expert knowledge to seize opportunities for learning, promoting children's thinking skills.

Transition to Primary School: Children make exceptional progress from their starting points and gain the skills they require for starting school.

Diversity Management: Children spend time looking at the world map and recall what they found out about different countries.

Child Safety Management: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective and staff have an excellent knowledge of procedures.

Children's Safety and Security: Children settle in remarkably well and go on to develop a very strong sense of emotional well-being.

Happiness and Settling: Children flourish in this wonderful setting and develop a very strong sense of emotional well-being.