Uplands Pre-School

Activities: Children prepare fruit for the snack table and collect their friends' boots when it is time to go outside.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff are highly responsive to children's ideas and promote children's problem-solving and thinking skills effectively.

Communication: Staff form extremely strong partnerships with parents and ensure every parent is fully involved in their children's experiences.

Community Building: Parents praise the 'fantastic' staff and speak highly of the superb progress their children have made in all areas of learning.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Staff speak to children in a warm, engaged manner.

Safeguarding Training: Staff regularly attend safeguarding training to underpin their knowledge.

Play and Learning Integration: Children play together to achieve shared goals, like building a huge house using large foam bricks and mulch 'cement'.

Transition to Primary School: Staff develop effective links with other settings or providers that the children attend.

Child Safety Management: The manager uses robust systems to ensure staff understand precisely how to safeguard children in the setting.

Children's Safety and Security: She checks that all staff know the policies and procedures of the setting and ensures they regularly attend safeguarding training to underpin this knowledge.

Happiness and Settling: Children develop a strong sense of belonging and ownership of their learning environment in this welcoming pre-school.