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Burnside Pre School

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Feb 2025)
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4.3(3 Google reviews) ·Burnside Community Centre, 36 Burnside Crescent, Manchester, M24 5NN · Rochdale
Number of places
18 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2025
Local authority
Rochdale

About this early years setting

Burnside Pre School is located in Manchester and provides care for children aged two to four. It operates from 9am to 3pm, Monday to Friday, during term time. Ofsted inspected the pre-school in February 2025 and gave it an overall judgement of Outstanding. The inspection report noted that an ambitious curriculum supports children's curiosity and imagination, helping them to make excellent progress.

According to Ofsted, promoting communication and language is a high priority, with staff using storytelling skills and learning key words in children's home languages. The curriculum offers many opportunities for physical development, such as children rolling tyres in the garden. The report also highlights staff's understanding of child development, which they use to provide targeted support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, working with other professionals where needed.

What it's like

Children thrive in the care of the highly experienced team, who implement an ambitious curriculum, igniting a deep love of learning. Staff create exciting learning environments that nurture children's curiosity and imagination, supporting excellent progress.

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Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

7:30am - 6pm daily, including school holidays

Age range

2-4 years

Term time / All Year

Term Time

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Burnside Pre School

Last inspected 24 February 2025

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding

What it's like to attend

Children thrive in the care of the highly experienced team, who implement an ambitious curriculum, igniting a deep love of learning. Staff create exciting learning environments that nurture children's curiosity and imagination, supporting excellent progress.

Inspector highlights

  • Highly skilled and passionate leaders show an unwavering commitment to ensuring the highest possible outcomes for all children.
  • Promoting children's communication and language skills is a high priority.
  • Staff plan an abundance of opportunities for children to learn specific physical skills.
  • Staff possess advanced storytelling skills, exciting and engaging children as they read.
  • Staff are adept at weaving mathematical opportunities through activities and experiences.
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Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff have an excellent understanding of child development. They use meticulous assessments to ensure that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), and children in receipt of additional funding, have the targeted support that they need from the very start. Staff work with other professionals involved in children's learning and development to help them deliver targeted interventions, to meet their individual needs.

Outdoor space

Children display impressive strength as they carry and roll heavy items in the garden. Staff encourage them to roll tyres high up the hill to watch them roll down.

EAL / language support

Staff learn key words in the languages that children speak. They support all children, including those who speak English as an additional language, to become confident communicators.

Google Reviews of Burnside Pre School

4.3
(3 Google reviews)

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Inspection history

Date: October 2012

  • February 2025Outstanding
  • October 2019Outstanding
  • October 2012Outstanding

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