Newtown Nursery School

Overview

Newtown Nursery School is described as an “exciting place to learn” where children arrive happily and are greeted with “warmth and kindness.” The report highlights a “highly inclusive provision” where staff form strong relationships with families, ensuring that “all children flourish” and are “exceptionally well prepared for primary school.”

Strengths

• Leaders have created an “exciting curriculum” that is “well designed, sequenced and structured,” with activities having a “clear learning purpose.”
• Staff are “very skilled” at delivering the curriculum, fostering curiosity and building language “incrementally” through key vocabulary.
• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are “very well supported,” with needs “quickly identified” and activities expertly adapted.
• The school places a high priority on reading, running well-attended workshops for parents and skilfully delivering a “pre-phonics programme.”
• Staff morale is high, with an “unmistakable sense of collaboration and teamwork” and leaders who take staff well-being seriously.

Areas to improve

• The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”