Moorlands Centre Nursery School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 30 January 2024

'Community' and 'nurture' are values at the heart of this small school. The school wants the very best for the children. Adults know children and their families exceptionally well and form strong relationships with them. This helps children to be and to feel safe at school. Children arrive each day with a huge smile. They enjoy coming to school and look forward to the exciting activities adults have planned for them. Staff have high expectations for children's learning and the way that they behave with one another. As a result, children's behaviour is excellent. Adults support children to be kind, caring and respectful. Children play happily with their friends and any minor disagreements are quickly sorted out by the adults, who model the expected behaviour, like sharing or taking turns. Children enjoy learning and are curious about what is happening all around them. Parents are overwhelmingly positive about their children's experiences at Moorlands Nursery. They comment on the confidence their children have and the progress they make, including when their child has special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

What the school should improve

• The curriculum does not identify the steps that build over time towards the school's curriculum goals consistently or effectively. Consequently, some staff sometimes plan activities that are not focused precisely enough on the component knowledge children need to learn. The school should make sure that the curriculum is designed to ensure that children's knowledge builds cumulatively so that they achieve as well as they could.

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