Cleator Moor Nursery School

Overview

Cleator Moor Nursery School is described as a "successful and improving school" where leaders have "resolved the weaknesses" identified in the previous inspection. The report highlights that children are "happy and well cared for," making "positive progress" and leaving well-prepared for primary school.

Strengths

• Leaders think through the curriculum for personal, social and emotional development "expertly," ensuring children learn to stay safe, healthy, and understand fundamental British values.
• Staff nurture wellbeing with "considerable success," helping children deal with emotions and fostering confidence, self-reliance, and independence.
• Children acquire "appropriate knowledge and skills," with particularly well-developed understanding of early mathematical and scientific concepts.
• The school promotes a "love of books and reading very successfully," with staff supporting children to use high-quality fiction and non-fiction resources.
• Inclusion is effective, with staff providing "timely and effective support" for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, ensuring they feel they belong.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should continue work to improve children's attendance so they "benefit fully from the school's curriculum, teaching and wider provision."
• Leaders should make more effective use of agreed targets in individual learning plans to inform teaching and enhance progress.
• Leaders should strengthen teaching so staff use "high-quality talk even more" to support children, especially those with language or communication difficulties.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with an "open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility" and concerns actively identified and managed.