Bilston Nursery School

Philosophy: Staff plan high-quality learning experiences. All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), learn to know and manage themselves well and make sense of the world around them.

Activities: For example, being able to ‘make music in a band’ and snuggle up together for story after story, with friends and adults. The nurture room provides an invaluable space for pupils who need a little extra help to achieve success.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Daily team briefings ensure staff plan and put in place purposeful activities that develop and consolidate learning. For example, children counted blocks, named colours and learned about shadows, reflections and light sources as they played with a light box and blocks.

Communication: Leaders and staff build powerful partnerships with parents. This ensures that help and support is wrapped around the family as well as the child.

Community Building: Parents and carers sing the praises of all nursery staff and leaders.

Programs and Resources: There is a resourced provision for children with SEND. These children have a range of complex needs. The provision caters for 11 children between the ages of three and five.

Staff Training: Staff are completely in tune with children’s feelings, needs and next steps for learning. Staff model and expect the highest standards of kindness and behaviour. Children do the same.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Each morning, staff welcome children and their families with a warm smile and inviting activities. The ‘no tears transition’ works exceptionally well.

Safeguarding Training: Leaders check to make sure staff are safe to work with children. Training gives staff the knowledge and confidence to respond to concerns. They do so promptly.

Play and Learning Integration: In a short space of time, children have moved from flitting from activity to activity on their own, to playing, learning and sharing together.

Transition to Primary School: Children are fully prepared for primary school.

Child Safety Management: The curriculum is carefully planned, so that children learn to be safe and to take risks. For example, children learn to use scissors correctly, use large resources to make dens and be safe near water.

Children's Safety and Security: Staff plan and put in place purposeful activities that develop and consolidate learning. For example, children counted blocks, named colours and learned about shadows, reflections and light sources as they played with a light box and blocks.

Happiness and Settling: Each morning, staff welcome children and their families with a warm smile and inviting activities. The ‘no tears transition’ works exceptionally well. Families say a calm and confident goodbye to their child knowing they are ready for the learning and fun in the day ahead.

Nutritional Menu: Staff use stories, music and food to help children learn about people who are different to themselves.