Dulwich Wood Nursery School

Overview: Dulwich Wood Nursery School is an exceptional school where children make secure progress from their individual starting points. The school has a strong standard in all areas, with a focus on communication and language, inclusion, and behaviour. Children feel safe, enjoy learning, and achieve well from their starting points.

Strengths:

• Children make secure progress from their individual starting points.
• The school has a strong standard in all areas, with a focus on communication and language, inclusion, and behaviour.
• Leaders have established a calm, orderly and nurturing environment.
• Staff use approaches that help them respond calmly and sensitively to children's feelings and behaviours.
• Children learn to think about their emotions and resolve disagreements constructively.

Areas to improve: The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.