Atherstone Nursery School

Activities: A wide range of exciting experiences that ensure children are enthusiastic to learn and enjoy doing so.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Children make outstanding progress because of their exceptionally positive attitudes to learning and the high quality of teaching.

Communication: Excellent relationships are maintained with parents, who are very positive about the nursery and their children’s experiences there.

Programs and Resources: Disabled children and those who have special educational needs make the same excellent progress as their classmates.

Staff Training: The school frequently enlists the help of parents to back this up with activities at home. Specific help in school is often targeted on a child’s particular needs, drawing on the expertise of the school’s own staff, as well as that of other agencies, such as the speech and language service.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: The headteacher has established a cohesive staff team whose members have built on the school’s previous strengths to make provision outstanding.

Safeguarding Training: Arrangements for safeguarding children are very thorough. Procedures meet requirements and are followed meticulously.

Play and Learning Integration: Adults are extremely skilled at checking on children’s learning and intervening to ensure they make rapid progress.

Transition to Primary School: They are well prepared for the next stage in their education and their lives in modern Britain.

Diversity Management: All children, regardless of their circumstances or ability, are doing well. Rapid action is taken to help any child who is falling behind.

Child Safety Management: Children contribute to their own and their classmates’ safety through their good behaviour and their consideration for each other.

Children's Safety and Security: Children thoroughly enjoy school and feel safe, relaxed and happy there.

Happiness and Settling: Children thoroughly enjoy school and feel safe, relaxed and happy there.