Our latest Ofsted inspection was undertaken in November 2010 when we were judged to be good with outstanding features. The inspector made the following comments:
Cheddington Pre-school is a good setting. All children make good progress because it is inclusive and meets the needs of each child, including those at the early stages of learning to speak English and those who have special educational needs. The new manager and her team are very experienced, and they are acquiring new skills to help them improve the learning opportunities they provide for the children. They evaluate the provision regularly to identify ways to improve it further, and they have made many recent changes. These include building excellent partnerships with parents and carers and the primary school.
The pre-school has improved since the last inspection, for example the children can now play outdoors whenever they wish. The classroom is now better organised and children can reach the equipment they want to use. The new manager drives ambition well and has swiftly improved many aspects of the provision.
The staff work harmoniously with parents, who feel that their children are safe, very well cared for, and make extremely good progress, particularly in recognising numbers, letters and sounds, and also in gaining independence.
The children learn to become independent by choosing when to have their snacks and putting on coats and boots. They learn about healthy lifestyles extremely well by talking about their snacks, growing and tasting fruit and vegetables and cooking nutritious snacks...They feel very safe and learn many ways of keeping themselves safe, such as talking about road safety and through visitors such as police officers, the ambulance service and fire officers. Children know what to do in an emergency because they often practise fire drills. Children make very good progress in understanding the diversity of the world around them because they talk about countries and people of different cultures and they learn about celebrations and customs.... As a result, when children leave the pre-school they are well prepared for the next stage of their education.