Darrick Wood Infant & Nursery School

Overview

Pupils “flourish at this nurturing and highly inclusive school” where they are “very well cared for and are kept safe.” Leaders deliver a “high-quality education” with an “ambitious and thoughtfully planned curriculum” that ensures all pupils, including those with special educational needs, “achieve highly.” The inspection confirms that the school’s vision for happy, nurtured pupils is “put into practice consistently.”

Strengths

• The curriculum is “well understood by teachers” and delivered in “coherent sequences,” allowing pupils to “revisit, recap and build on their prior learning.”
• Reading is “prioritised and permeates throughout all subjects,” with daily phonics sessions and closely matched books helping children become “confident and fluent readers.”
• Pupils with special educational needs are “very well identified and supported,” learning alongside peers with staff who are “highly trained” and “ambitious for what they can achieve.”
• Behaviour is “excellent,” with pupils being “polite and respectful” and classrooms remaining “calm” due to clear expectations.
• Personal development is of “very high quality,” incorporating opportunities to learn about “fundamental British values” and celebrate “diversity and difference.”

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.