STAFF and parents at an early year’s provider in Chippenham have been left delighted after the facility was rated as Outstanding in a recent Ofsted report.

The Frogwell Early Excellent Centre (EEC), part of The RISE Trust, was found to be excelling in every area when it was inspected last month and had improved from its previous Good rating.

Teaching at the centre was found to be of a consistently high quality and children are ‘very settled and secure in the setting’.

The inspection also found ‘staff use excellent strategies to engage all parents as partners in their children's learning’ and that the manager, Hannah Lovell, and staff make precise and accurate assessments of children’s development.

Lynn Evans, The RISE Trust deputy CEO, said: “Everyone at The RISE has the children’s welfare and development at the heart of what they do.

“Our EEC staff work tirelessly to enable the children to be the best they can possibly be, and it has been incredible that this has been recognised by Ofsted in two of our settings.

“Our children are amazing and have on both occasions shown the inspectors how excited they are about learning together. We are all very proud.”

An area where the centre could improve is extending ‘older and most-able children's understanding of patterns, as part of their mathematical development’.

The RISE Trust is a charity which manages six children’s centres across Chippenham, Cricklade, Royal Wootton Bassett and Calne, as well as providing services in Corsham and Malmesbury.