Yaxley & Mellis Pre-School

Activities: Children benefit from many well-planned activities to enhance children's reading skills

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff make the most of the well-planned outside area

Communication: Parents receive regular updates about their child's progress. Staff encourage parents to share observations of their child's development and family activities on the pre-school's online system

Programs and Resources: The manager works well with staff to enhance the pre-school environment and the activities on offer, to help gaps to quickly close

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Parents speak highly of the welcoming, friendly and professional staff

Safeguarding Training: Staff trained in safeguarding training and know what they need to do to keep children safe

Play and Learning Integration: Children benefit from many opportunities to play outside and exercise. For example, staff encourage children to pretend to be seeds by curling up small, and show them how to stretch tall to grow into apple trees

Transition to Primary School: Children's transitions to primary school are carefully planned

Diversity Management: Staff embrace children's varying cultural experiences. They find out about special family celebrations and traditional foods

Child Safety Management: Safeguarding is effective. Children are very well supervised at all times and risk assessments are thorough

Children's Safety and Security: Children settle well at the pre-school and show good levels of emotional well-being

Happiness and Settling: Children happily talk about their pre-school experiences