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Eastwood Nursery School continues to be an outstanding school.
What is it like to attend this school?
Children thrive in this school.
They and their parents and carers are given a warm welcome every day. Leaders and staff are determined to give the children in their care the very best possible start to their education. Children typically have a smile on their faces and love taking part in the many well-planned and rich activities on offer.
They enjoy their constant interactions and dialogue with adults.
Staff identify and meet children's learning and development needs extremely well. This includes making adaptations for and giving extra support to children with sp...ecial educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
Children gain an extensive amount of knowledge across each area of learning. They are very well supported in the development of their social skills. This means that children leave the nursery extremely well prepared for school when the time comes.
Staff establish clear routines and teach children how to behave well. As a result, the way children conduct themselves is exemplary. They learn and play collaboratively, showing care and consideration to one another.
Parents have high praise for the school. For example, they highlighted the ethos of care and support for their children and themselves. They also welcome the many opportunities that they have to be involved in their children's education.
They rightly said their children blossom in this school.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
Leaders have designed a rich and ambitious curriculum. They plan with precision what they want children to know and be able to do across all areas of learning.
Through home visits and initial observations, staff assess children's starting points thoroughly. Each child's key person plays a pivotal role in building a triangle of trust and support between the child, school and home. Key persons know their children incredibly well.
They keep a close eye on children's development and keep in touch often with parents.Teachers are highly skilled. They reflect on children's learning every day.
They make adjustments to reinforce learning for children who fall behind, including those with SEND. Staff do a lot to keep children's enthusiasm and curiosity alive. They use children's initial interests as hooks in designing learning activities that match the ambition of the curriculum.
They do not leave it at that though. They encourage and support children to broaden their horizons. They guide them to learn through many other activities and to develop a very wide range of new interests.
Children love listening to stories and staff encourage them to join in. Chosen books serve as a springboard for broadening children's learning. For example, in one class, children were enthusiastically joining in with a re-read of a rhyming story about cats from different countries in the world.
Staff used this to engage children in discussion about the different places. This led to children using magnifiers to find the countries on the globe and telling the adults where their parents had come from. They then searched to find those places on the map.
Children independently access and use all the resources available to them. These are plentiful, especially in the expansive outdoor area. Adults are very skilful at working alongside the children.
They ask children questions to deepen their thinking. They model and use key vocabulary so that children expand the range of words that they understand and use.
Leaders are extremely committed to inclusion.
They make adaptations to address needs, so all can access the curriculum. For example, children in the specially resourced provision come in a half hour earlier than their peers to use the outdoor equipment when it is quieter. Over time, they gain confidence and get to mingle with their peers throughout the day.
The ambiance across the school is purposeful. Children are inquisitive, imaginative and engaged. They sustain their concentration on activities and follow staff's instructions without question.
Provision for children's wider development is very strong. Children mark different cultural events and festivals, such as celebrating Christmas and Eid. Staff have planned to take children to the theatre, and children recently visited a local home for older people where they danced and sang with the residents.
Children enjoyed choosing several artefacts to be buried in a time capsule as part of a local regeneration project. Staff have had specific training on how to teach children about differences and diversity. They read suggested books and hold age-appropriate conversations with children.
There is a deep sense of unity among the staff. They said that their workload is reasonable and that leaders are considerate of their welfare.
Leaders are not complacent and seek excellence.
The governing body has specialist professional expertise in early years education. It makes a strong contribution to the school's work.
Safeguarding
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
Designated safeguarding leads make sure that all staff are well trained and vigilant. Staff report any concerns they have about a child, no matter how minor they might appear. There is a local authority social worker on site once a week, supporting leaders' work.
Leaders make prompt referrals to external agencies as needed. They also use the family worker and internal therapists, such as the occupational therapist and the educational psychologist, as appropriate, to promote children's safeguarding and welfare and that of their families.
Leaders deliver workshops and information to parents about risks and how to support their children.
They also teach children about safe practices, for example when they do pond dipping.
There are appropriate vetting procedures in place for the appointment of staff.
Background
When we have judged a school to be outstanding, we will then normally go into the school about once every four years to confirm that the school remains outstanding.
This is called an ungraded inspection, and it is carried out under section 8 of the Education Act 2005. We do not give graded judgements on an ungraded inspection. However, if we find evidence that a school would now receive a higher or lower grade, then the next inspection will be a graded inspection, which is carried out under section 5 of the Act.
Usually, this is within one to two years of the date of the ungraded inspection. If we have serious concerns about safeguarding, behaviour or the quality of education, we will deem the ungraded inspection a graded inspection immediately.
This is the second ungraded inspection since we judged the school to be outstanding in July 2013.
