Chapel Street Nursery School

Overview: Chapel Street Nursery School continues to be a good school, providing a welcoming and safe environment for children to learn and develop. Children settle quickly and feel safe due to clear routines and expectations, while staff are friendly and caring.

Strengths:

• Children settle quickly and feel part of the school family.
• Staff are friendly and caring, encouraging children to join in and learn new skills.
• Adults pay close attention to what children know and can do, helping them to learn new skills in small groups.
• Leaders have put effective systems in place to identify children who have SEND and provide bespoke support to help them make progress.
• Staff have confidence that school leaders are considerate of their well-being and workloads.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders have not completely identified the most important knowledge and how this is to be learned in continuous provision and taught sessions in a few subjects.
• In some subjects, activities are not consistently well matched to what pupils need to learn next, resulting in some pupils developing gaps in their learning or misconceptions.
• Leaders should ensure that all adults are clear about what pupils are to learn and how this will be achieved.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with a culture of safeguarding in place across the school. All adults have the training they need to understand and carry out their roles for keeping children safe, and concerns are recorded accurately and promptly by staff.