Twin Sails Infant and Nursery School

Overview

Twin Sails Infant and Nursery School has taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection. The school fosters a ‘calm and purposeful environment’ where pupils flourish due to strong relationships and high expectations from staff. Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum that excites and motivates pupils, ensuring they achieve well and develop into confident readers.

Strengths

• Pupils show ‘positive attitudes to their learning’ and work hard, supported by staff who make careful checks to adapt the curriculum to individual needs.
• Children in the Nursery get off to a ‘flying start’, developing essential social skills, vocabulary, and early literacy foundations.
• The school provides significant pastoral support, with parents describing staff as ‘caring, kind and nurturing’.
• Systems accurately identify the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), enabling them to access the same learning as their peers.
• Pupils are enthusiastic about leadership roles, such as ‘playground pals’ and ‘eco-warriors’, which foster independence and organisational skills.

Areas to improve

• The trust needs to ensure pupils can ‘connect their knowledge across subjects more securely’, as some are not yet able to make links between subjects, which can hinder the depth of their learning.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.