King's Lynn Nursery School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 25 April 2023

Children enjoy attending this nursery school. They take part in a wide range of different and interesting learning and play experiences. They benefit from a well-resourced indoor and outdoor learning environment. They are interested in the world around them, for example, looking carefully at things that are growing using magnifying glasses and binoculars. They develop their large motor skills through using trikes, climbing, and balancing. Children enjoy listening to stories that adults share with them. They join in with songs and rhymes, including actions. Children enjoy taking part in group activities that help them develop their early mathematical and literacy knowledge. They practise mark making, 'writing' stories, and drawing on chalkboards. Children play well together and are helped to learn to take turns and share. Any poor behaviour is dealt with firmly, but kindly by staff. The staff help those who are new to settle quickly. Children feel and are kept safe.

What the school should improve

• Leaders' long-term curriculum plan is not fully developed. This means it is not clear enough how the experiences for older children will be different to those for younger children. Leaders need to ensure that progression of experiences and activities is more clearly established so that all older children are supported to build effectively on previous learning.
• The written targets for children with SEND do not precisely identify pupils' next steps in learning. They are not clear enough to support staff new to the children in knowing what individual children with SEND need to learn. Leaders need to make sure that information and written targets precisely identify children's next steps in learning so that all staff can support their learning effectively.
• Leaders' systems for monitoring children's attendance are underdeveloped and some reasons for absence are not identified promptly. A few children do not attend regularly. Leaders should ensure that staff check on all children's absence promptly to identify those families and children who need support to attend regularly.

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