Netherton Park Nursery School

Overview

Netherton Park Nursery School continues to be an outstanding school, delivering a highly ambitious curriculum that places children at the heart of learning. Leaders and staff provide dedicated care and support, creating a nurturing environment where children are inquisitive, happy, and achieve well from their different starting points.

Strengths

• Leaders bring their vision of ‘a place where children are at the heart of learning’ to life, with staff who ‘open their arms and their hearts’ to children and families.
• The curriculum is built around words, stories, and rhymes, helping children to be ready to learn to read and develop a ‘love of books’.
• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive ‘highly effective support’ through tailored activities and specialist provisions like ‘Leapfrog’ and ‘Leapfrog Too’.
• Staff skilfully use conversations to equip children with ‘language for life’, ensuring even those with complex needs can have their ‘voice heard’.
• Parents value the strong partnership with the school, noting that staff hold ‘a special place in the heart of families’ through workshops and personal support.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with leaders having ‘ingrained safeguarding into all that they do’ and staff reporting worries rapidly.