Cherry Trees Nursery School

Overview

Cherry Trees Nursery School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at its previous inspection, where it was judged outstanding for overall effectiveness. Children make a "fantastic start to their education," learning and playing happily in "stimulating environments" within a diverse community. The school continues to provide high-quality education, ensuring children are "extremely well prepared for moving on to their next school."

Strengths

• The curriculum is "meticulously designed," setting out clearly what children will learn and enabling staff to set "highly purposeful learning activities."
• Children demonstrate "extremely positive attitudes," helping each other, concentrating, and persevering with tasks for prolonged periods.
• Staff use songs, rhymes, and books extensively to support communication, language, and mathematical understanding, creating a strong sense of belonging.
• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are "very well supported," with appropriate interventions tracked carefully to ensure they are "successful learners."
• An "impressive range of activities, events and visitors" enriches the curriculum, broadening children’s horizons through community engagement and specialist sessions.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.