North Islington Nursery School

Overview: North Islington Nursery School is a good school where children love coming to learn and build strong relationships with staff. They are safe and well cared for, and leaders are ambitious for all children to achieve highly.

Strengths:

• Children build strong and positive relationships with staff.
• Children are safe and very well cared for.
• Staff promote children's early reading, writing and number skills well.
• Positive relationships exist all around the school, making it a calm and purposeful place to learn.
• Staff work together in a happy and cohesive team.

Areas to improve:

• Sometimes, staff do not make the most of opportunities to extend children's learning, particularly to support their communication and language development.
• Occasionally, their interactions do not promote children's language and communication development well enough.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Children are taught how to keep themselves safe, and staff are well trained to identify any concerns about children's welfare.