Flatts Nursery School

Overview

Flatts Nursery School provides a “strong standard” of education across all inspected areas, including achievement, attendance, curriculum, inclusion, leadership, and personal development. The report describes a “calm, nurturing environment” where staff share “high expectations” and deliver an “ambitious curriculum” that effectively prepares children for their next stage of education.

Strengths

• Staff place a “clear emphasis on developing language as the foundation for learning,” helping children from low starting points or those learning English as an additional language to close gaps quickly.
• The school demonstrates “highly positive relationships” and a “thoughtful and individualised approach” to supporting children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Leaders maintain a “clear and proactive approach to monitoring attendance,” working closely with families to remove barriers and establish positive routines.
• Children behave very well, showing “impressive self discipline” and developing independence through well-established routines and consistent care.
• Governors “effectively hold leaders to account,” particularly regarding the achievement and support for vulnerable groups, while staff feel “very well supported” by leadership.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should “continue to strengthen curriculum implementation to sustain consistently high standards of teaching.”
• Governors should “continue to make proactive contributions to setting and monitoring strategic priorities” to ensure high standards are maintained across all areas.

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an “open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility” and concerns being actively identified and managed.