Hornsea Nursery School

Overview

Hornsea Nursery School provides an "inspiral setting" where children "flourish and thrive" through a highly effective, inclusive approach to early years education. Leaders demonstrate "meticulous insight into child development," ensuring every aspect of the school day is adapted to meet individual needs, resulting in strong outcomes across all areas of learning.

Strengths

• Leaders have designed a "highly effective approach to inclusion" that "precisely meets children’s needs," particularly for those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Children achieve highly across the seven areas of learning, developing "secure foundational knowledge" and making "strong gains" in communication and language.
• Staff use "deliberate high-quality teaching approaches" and "high-quality interactions" to support children’s physical, social, and emotional development.
• The curriculum is "highly ambitious," featuring purposeful phonics teaching and engaging activities like engineering projects that build confidence and resilience.
• Governors and leaders collaborate effectively, with governors having "secure and detailed knowledge of the school" to challenge and support strategic direction.

Areas to improve

• Leaders should ensure the school’s approach to child development "responds to future challenges and changing cohorts" so children continue to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Safeguarding

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