Little Oaks Pre School

Activities: Children enjoy lining up dinosaurs in the mud and making roaring sounds.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff ensure that the curriculum helps all children to build on their individual knowledge and skills.

Communication: Key people know their children very well. For example, they talk to parents when children start about what they know and can do.

Community Building: Managers actively seek feedback on their provision and implement suggestions for improvement promptly.

Programs and Resources: Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and children who speak English as an additional language effectively.

Staff Training: Staff use visual prompts to help children communicate and understand what is coming 'first' and 'next' in their routine.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children are happy and secure in the pre-school. They form strong bonds with their key person.

Safeguarding Training: Staff have a secure understanding of the signs and symptoms of different types of abuse.

Play and Learning Integration: Children play imaginatively with others.

Transition to Primary School: Managers are part of a local authority initiative to build better transitions for disadvantaged children.

Diversity Management: They use visual prompts to help children communicate and understand what is coming 'first' and 'next' in their routine.

Child Safety Management: Managers ensure that robust policies and procedures are in place to keep children safe.

Children's Safety and Security: Children are happy and secure in the pre-school.

Teaching Personal Safety: Staff know how they can support children to be safe online.

Happiness and Settling: Children are happy and secure in the pre-school.

Nutritional Menu: Staff provide healthy snacks for children.