Congratulations to all the staff at Southam Primary Pre School LTD who recently received ‘Outstanding’ judgements across all of the four inspection areas - leadership and management; quality of teaching, learning and assessment; personal development, behaviour and welfare; and outcomes for children.
The manager leads with real passion to deliver the best possible outcomes for all the children who attend. The team members she manages are committed to the setting's vision. They successfully provide the best opportunities for children to develop and become confident, independent learners.
Children happily say goodbye to their parents and are excited to get involved in playing with their friends.
The opportunities for learning are inspiring and exciting for children. Practitioners use their extensive skills to build on what the children already know. They provide the opportunity for children to extend learning even further through deeper engagement in their play and increasing the level of maintained concentration.
Partnerships with parents are excellent. Parents highly commend the whole team. They view the settling-in process, including home visits to form relationships with the children prior to starting the setting, as invaluable to their children feeling confident. Parents enjoy sessions where they can attend and join in with their children's learning.
The manager and practitioners continually observe and assess what children know. They use children's interests to engage them in their learning, reinforcing what they can do and providing new challenges to extend their learning. The manager monitors the quality of activities and learning experiences to ensure these reflect the children's interests and stages of development.
Practitioners are warm and caring and form exceptionally good relationships with the children. Children's superior independence skills are embedded in all aspects of their learning.
Children are extremely well behaved. They take great delight in helping adults with small responsibilities, such as gathering their friends' choices of snack, recording these using mathematical concepts and relaying them back to a practitioner. There is an outstanding respectful culture in this pre-school provision.
Staff are supported through highly effective supervision and training opportunities to improve the quality of their teaching to an exceptional level. This has an excellent positive impact on children's learning.
Children demonstrate a high level of engagement and enjoyment while listening to familiar stories. Practitioners give children the choice of stories through voting for their favourite. Each child has a small building brick, which they place on the book they would like a practitioner to read. They then use their superior mathematical skills to look at the groups of bricks and calculate which has the most votes, confidently using their mathematical vocabulary while doing so.