Crigglestone Nursery School

Overview

Crigglestone Nursery School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection. Children love attending, arriving with enthusiasm and benefiting from high-quality learning opportunities that support their individual development. Consequently, pupils make strong progress and demonstrate exceptionally positive behaviours and attitudes to learning.

Strengths

• Staff build extremely strong relationships with children, ensuring interactions are consistently positive so children feel safe and secure.
• The carefully designed curriculum meets the needs of all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), with staff demonstrating strong subject knowledge.
• Adults skilfully teach through play, providing purposeful opportunities for role play, creativity, and communication that boost children’s confidence.
• Children develop a love of books and stories, delighting in selecting stimulating resources and making connections between stories and their learning.
• Leaders have refined planning and assessment processes to reduce staff workload, fostering a culture of reflection where staff feel valued and morale is high.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.