Bradley Nursery School

Overview

Bradley Nursery School is rated as ‘Good’ across all inspection categories, maintaining high standards since its previous ‘Outstanding’ judgement. The report describes a ‘friendly nursery school’ where children are ‘happy and content’, benefiting from a ‘broad, knowledge-rich’ curriculum and a ‘warm and welcoming atmosphere’. Leaders have successfully fostered a supportive environment for staff and ensure children feel ‘safe and well looked after’.

Strengths

• Staff have ‘high expectations for children’s behaviour and achievement’, resulting in children who are ‘eager to learn’ and behave in a ‘polite and well-mannered way’.
• The curriculum is ‘presented in a logical order’, enabling children to ‘build on their prior learning’ and ‘achieve well overall’.
• Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) effectively, ensuring they ‘achieve well’ through careful identification of needs and partnership with external professionals.
• ‘Communication and language, and early reading, are central to all that staff do’, with children successfully building vocabulary through stories, songs, and rhymes.
• Leaders have taken ‘effective steps to reduce staff workload’, contributing to ‘high levels of morale’ and positive staff relationships.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must ensure that recent curriculum changes are ‘fully embedded’ in one or two areas of learning, as staff do not yet ‘implement the revised curriculum in these areas consistently well’.
• Consequently, some children ‘do not learn all that they could’, so leaders should ensure staff ‘implement the curriculum as intended’ for consistent achievement across all areas.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are ‘effective’, with staff receiving up-to-date training and understanding the steps to follow if they have concerns about children’s welfare.