Whitegate Nursery School

Activities: Children learn how to behave sensibly in the many learning activities that staff provide.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Mostly, the school has thought carefully about the information that it wants children to learn. It has also identified the order in which children need to build their grasp of important concepts and vocabulary.

Communication: The school works with parents and carers successfully. For example, it does all that it can to help parents to understand that children’s regular attendance at school is important.

Community Building: The school discusses with parents of children with SEND its additional support for children’s learning and development. Parents are well informed about how home and school can work together to support children’s education.

Programs and Resources: Staff draw on their in-depth knowledge of child development to identify the needs of children with SEND quickly. Where needed, they adapt the way the curriculum is delivered to help children with SEND to learn successfully.

Staff Training: The school selects carefully which different activities or approaches to use to teach its curriculum.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children feel valued because staff treat them as important people. They learn much new knowledge from staff who support and guide their play.

Safeguarding Training: To evaluate the effectiveness of safeguarding, the inspectors reviewed the single central record, took account of the views of leaders, staff and children and considered the extent to which the school has created an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children’s interests first.

Play and Learning Integration: Children learn how to behave sensibly in the many learning activities that staff provide.

Transition to Primary School: At the centre of the school’s work is a successful focus on children’s personal development. Children become keen learners, able to concentrate and explore with confidence.

Child Safety Management: To evaluate the effectiveness of safeguarding, the inspectors reviewed the single central record, took account of the views of leaders, staff and children and considered the extent to which the school has created an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children’s interests first.

Children's Safety and Security: Children are happy and trust the staff. They sit close to their key person at group time, such as to sing nursery rhymes. They tell staff their ideas and observations, as well as their worries. Staff are genuinely interested in how children feel. This helps children to feel safe and settled at school.

Happiness and Settling: Children are happy and trust the staff. They sit close to their key person at group time, such as to sing nursery rhymes. They tell staff their ideas and observations, as well as their worries. Staff are genuinely interested in how children feel. This helps children to feel safe and settled at school.