The Learning Tree Preschool in Bath

Strong standard

Last inspected Apr 2026

Ofsted rating for The Learning Tree Preschool

Last inspected 29 April 2026

What it's like to attend

• The safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.
• All children, including those with SEND, develop a wide range of key skills and knowledge, preparing them well for school.
• Children demonstrate high levels of physical competence, managing obstacle courses and serving themselves at lunchtime.
• Children build positive relationships and show an understanding of their own and others' feelings, playing cooperatively and helping each other.
• Staff implement clear behaviour strategies, addressing minor conflicts quickly and sensitively, and consistently apply rules and boundaries.
• Leaders design and consistently deliver a broad, well-sequenced curriculum that motivates children to engage in meaningful learning.
• Skilled and flexible staff adapt the curriculum and teaching effectively for children with SEND and those with barriers, using targeted support and resources.
• Leaders and staff identify children's needs quickly and implement timely interventions, building highly effective partnerships with external professionals and parents.
• Partnerships with parents are well established, with parents reporting that staff identify concerns early and put effective support in place.
• Staff consistently follow effective procedures to promote children's health and welfare, implementing good hygiene practices and teaching children to wash their hands thoroughly.
• Children learn how to keep themselves safe, knowing to wear helmets, use knives safely, walk indoors and follow a one-way system on bikes to reduce accidents.
• Staff learn and use words in children's home language to help them feel welcome and included.
• Leaders and staff use additional funding effectively to support all children, targeting resources to children's individual interests and providing experiences that strengthen children's personal, social, and emotional development.

• 1Leaders should ensure continued improvement in the setting's successful work to remove barriers for children who need extra help to realise a transformational impact on all children's achievement and wellbeing.