St Anne's & Avondale Park Nursery School

Overview: St Anne's & Avondale Park Nursery School provides a nurturing atmosphere where children settle in quickly and play happily. Children behave impeccably, and staff promote independence and resilience throughout the school day. The school has a strong focus on building children's communication and language skills.

Strengths:

• Children settle in quickly and play happily in a nurturing atmosphere.
• Children behave impeccably, understanding clear routines and managing sharing and taking turns.
• Staff promote independence and resilience throughout the school day.
• The school has a strong focus on building children's communication and language skills.
• Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are extremely well supported.

Areas to improve:

• In some areas of learning, the small component steps of knowledge that children need to be secure in are not as well defined as they should be.
• Some planned tasks and activities do not build cumulatively on what has been previously learned.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.