Highfield Nursery School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 14 May 2024

Highfield Nursery School is a happy and highly inclusive community. Everyone is welcome here. Staff are passionate about every child succeeding. They take the time to understand children as individuals. This helps build the incredibly warm and positive relationships throughout the school. Exciting activities spark children's curiosity because they connect their interests with new learning. Staff share high-quality language with children when they talk to them. This helps children speak with confidence when they share ideas. This confidence helps children to persist at tasks they find tricky. They are highly resilient to setbacks. All of this means children develop very positive attitudes to learning. Children play incredibly well together. They are co-operative and kind. They help each other and have high levels of self-control when waiting to take turns on the hammock or the trikes. Children are polite and use good manners at mealtimes. Staff help children understand the rules and routines. Behaviour is exemplary. Children care for their environment and the natural world, finding a safe place for snails they discover in the garden. Children learn how to keep themselves safe using the woodwork tools and how to cut up vegetables carefully. Children are very well prepared for their next stage in education.

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