Arnold Nursery School

Overview

Children receive a “flying start to their education” in this “welcoming and highly inclusive” nursery school. The report describes a “highly ambitious and meticulously well designed” curriculum where children make “strong progress” and achieve well, supported by “highly skilled and knowledgeable” staff.

Strengths

• The curriculum is “meticulously well designed,” with careful attention to children’s starting points and previous experiences.
• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) “achieve exceptionally well” due to “excellent support” and effective identification processes.
• Early reading is “central to the curriculum,” with texts chosen to support language development and build learning over time.
• Staff interactions “consistently promote language development,” and children talk enthusiastically about their learning using key vocabulary.
• Children behave “exceptionally well” due to clear routines, showing “perseverance and resilience” in their learning.

Areas to improve

The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”