Sunny Brow Nursery School

What Ofsted said

From the inspection on 19 November 2024

Children, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), thrive at this school. When they arrive at the start of the day, each child is greeted warmly by staff. Children are extremely happy because of the fun learning that they experience, including with their many friends. They feel safe here. The school's ambitious curriculum offers children many rich opportunities to develop new knowledge. Children love to play in the school's well-designed classrooms and extensive, wooded grounds. They gain important knowledge, such as about the 'stop tree', beyond which no-one should go without an adult. Children respond to the school's high expectations and achieve well. Children learn successfully about how to behave. This is particularly evident in the school's work with two-year-olds. Staff help children gently to share toys and to tidy up before they move to other play areas. Children are sensible. They look after the school's resources and equipment. The school helps children to develop important aspects of their character. For example, it skilfully uses puppets to teach children about different behaviours. Children learn to be confident, resilient and persistent. This helps children to be ready for their lives as British citizens.

What the school should improve

• Sometimes, the school does not think as carefully as it could about the component knowledge that it wants children to learn from its curriculum. This means that, on occasion, children do not learn some of the key information that they could. The school should make sure that all its curriculum is equally well thought out.
• On occasion, the school does not identify some of its improvement priorities clearly enough. This holds back some of its efforts to maintain its existing successes. The school should consider more thoroughly which aspects of its work it will refine and how it will do so.

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