St Matthews Pre-School

Ofsted rating for St Matthews Pre-School

Last inspected 9 January 2025

What it's like to attend

• Staff know each and every child exceptionally well, listening carefully to their ideas and responding enthusiastically, making children feel valued and important.
• Children who speak English as an additional language receive excellent support, with staff celebrating their culture and heritage, incorporating home languages, and making sushi with all children.
• Leaders and staff provide an inspiring and ambitious curriculum, with consistently high-quality interactions, leading to excellent progress in children's learning and development.
• The inspiring, well-designed, and well-sequenced curriculum allows children to practice and consolidate knowledge and skills, such as mathematical positional language.
• Staff have very high expectations, providing ample opportunities to develop self-confidence, leading to exemplary behaviour and inquisitive, curious, and self-assured children.
• Staff have established an excellent educational programme to enhance communication and language skills, using a breadth of language, detailed explanations, and group activities where children listen respectfully.
• Staff purposefully plan a wide range of high-quality experiences focusing on developing children's specific physical skills, such as squeezing sponges to soak up water to develop hand strength.
• Staff build strong and effective partnerships with parents, including home visits before children start, and provide detailed information about how to continue learning at home.
• Staff provide an excellent, inclusive experience, understanding the uniqueness of each child, and offering opportunities based on interests and development stages, including French lessons and baking activities.
• The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with an open and positive culture that prioritises children's interests.
• Leaders and staff engage in highly focused training and professional development, continually improving the curriculum and enhancing children's engagement and concentration.