Atherstone Nursery School

Overview

Atherstone Nursery School continues to be an outstanding school, providing a high-quality environment where children are "happy, safe and excited about learning." The school’s ethos of "right start, bright futures" is central to its daily work, ensuring pupils are "extremely well prepared for their next stage of learning."

Strengths

• The curriculum is "highly ambitious" and "coherently planned," allowing children to "achieve highly" and retain knowledge effectively.
• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are "swiftly identified" and receive "bespoke support" from external professionals, enabling them to "achieve well."
• Early reading development is strong, with a "carefully adapted phonics programme" and "highly effective speech and language support" ensuring all children acquire age-appropriate skills.
• Staff foster excellent behaviour and emotional development, teaching children to "recognise and manage their feelings and emotions" while showing "consistently high levels of respect."
• Leaders are "passionate and highly ambitious," ensuring staff workload is managed effectively without creating "unnecessary burdens."

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.