The Learning Tree Pre-School

Ofsted rating for The Learning Tree Pre-School

Last inspected 24 April 2023

What it's like to attend

• Managers and staff plan a curriculum that uses books as a foundation for learning and follow children's interests to plan stories. Children develop a love of books and read along with staff, developing their vocabulary and comprehension through vibrant, interactive story times.
• Children learn how to live healthy lifestyles. They grow a variety of vegetables that they use to explore and eat when fully grown. Children eat a variety of healthy well-balanced foods at mealtimes. Parents take part in the teaching of healthy living by sharing fresh fruit each week with the pre-school.
• Staff provide activities that encourage a progression of skills. For instance, children enjoy mark making linked to their favourite stories. Some children choose to colour in pictures of characters from the story. Other children move on to drawing their own pictures and writing about what they have drawn.
• Children at this pre-school are confident and independent learners. They benefit from opportunities to build on their self-care skills, such as undressing and putting sports clothes on for weekly physical exercise sessions. At lunchtime, children walk to school together with staff, collect their own trays and cutlery, and make choices about what they would like to eat.
• Staff encourage parents to be active partners in their children's learning. They ask parents to share their children's early experiences and development before they attend. Staff share appropriate strategies that parents can use at home to support their children's development. They also share stories that parents can use to enhance their children's speech and vocabulary at home.

• 1continue to build on staff's already good teaching to challenge children's thinking during activities even further through the highest quality interactions.