Langley Moor Nursery School

Overview

Langley Moor Nursery School is rated as ‘Outstanding’ across all inspection categories. The report describes a setting where children display ‘infectious enthusiasm to learn’ and ‘exemplary’ behaviour within a ‘calm and ordered’ environment. Leaders maintain ‘incredibly high and ambitious expectations’, ensuring a coherent curriculum that effectively prepares children for their next educational stage.

Strengths

• Children are ‘kind and respectful’ and show ‘perseverance when facing challenges’, supported by ‘excellent pastoral support’.
• The curriculum is carefully refined, with a strong focus on ‘vocabulary acquisition’ and ‘tiered’ language choices to ensure consistency.
• Books are ‘at the heart of the curriculum’, with age-appropriate texts and a ‘rhyme of the week’ that children sing independently.
• Practitioners possess ‘strong subject knowledge’ and provide exceptional support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• The school uses its ‘extensive outdoor space creatively’, including a woodland area, to make meaningful links to the early years curriculum.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The report states that ‘the arrangements for safeguarding are effective’.