The Wendy House Day Nursery in Station Lane was visited by the education watchdog on March 7, with the results of the inspection made public on April 9.
Overall ratings for places of education across the country were scrapped under government action in September last year, removing single word judgements from visits.
Facilities are monitored across five inspection categories including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and their overall effectiveness.
Ofsted described the facility as a home-from-home (Image: Google) The Wendy House Day Nursery was marked as ‘good’ across the board.
Inspectors described the nursery as having a “home-from-home” environment for its children, credited to staff and leaders who have “strong and nurturing bonds with children”.
Children attending the nursery are encouraged to engage in “ambitious” back-and-forth conversations that positively develop their fluency and language to become confident conversationists.
Adaptability at The Wendy House sparked approving remarks from Ofsted, which observed staff evolving the practice to meet the needs of families.
This includes their consideration for the “attachments children have with their carers”, and their adaptations to the practice “to consider the needs of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)”.
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Beyond the nursery’s doors, inspectors found that “staff make links with other schools and childcare providers to provide consistency” to help prepare them for the next stage of education.
Inspectors provided feedback for how the nursery can continue to improve.
This includes developing planned focused activities to encourage and enable all children to participate, and to “build on existing good practice to help all children to develop an understanding and respect for people and communities beyond their own”.
