Opening hours
Monday to Friday from 7.45am to 6pm
Gorran Pre-School
Ofsted: Good
(Sept 2025)
Number of places
20 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Sept 2025
Local authority
Cornwall
About this day nursery
Gorran School, located in Gorran, St Austell, PL26 6LH, is a primary school dedicated to fostering a vibrant, active, and happy learning environment. The school prides itself on developing each child within a caring, family-like atmosphere, a sentiment echoed by its students, staff, and parents.
Praised in its Ofsted report for being a welcoming school with warm and nurturing relationships between staff and pupils, Gorran School maintains high expectations, ensuring children learn well and thrive. It cultivates good behaviour both in lessons and during social times, where children of all ages play together, fostering a sense of safety and community belonging.
The school particularly focuses on instilling a love of reading and preparing its pupils for life beyond primary education. Gorran School actively engages with the wider community, employing an open-door policy and regularly communicating with parents through newsletters, notice boards, emails, and text messages.
They also hold consultation evenings and provide written reports to keep parents informed about their child's progress. The school also offers various extra-curricular activities, including sports, music, drama, and a forest school.
What it's like
Children thrive in this warm and friendly pre-school, benefiting from bespoke settling-in sessions and dedicated staff support, which helps new children settle quickly and build close bonds. Staff provide an ambitious curriculum that focuses on problem-solving, confidence, and resilience, leading to children being proactive learners with high levels of engagement in their play.
Welcoming environmentHigh expectationsCommunity-focusedLove of readingForest School
Pricing & funding
Pricing on request
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Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Gorran Pre-School
Last inspected 23 September 2025
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
What it's like to attend
Children thrive in this warm and friendly pre-school, benefiting from bespoke settling-in sessions and dedicated staff support, which helps new children settle quickly and build close bonds. Staff provide an ambitious curriculum that focuses on problem-solving, confidence, and resilience, leading to children being proactive learners with high levels of engagement in their play.
Inspector highlights
- Children thrive in this warm and friendly pre-school.
- Staff provide an ambitious and engaging curriculum.
- Children are proactive learners who show excitement and high levels of engagement in their play.
- Staff have high expectations of children's behaviour and teach them to be kind and helpful.
- Partnerships with parents are strong, with staff encouraging active involvement in children's development.
Areas to develop
- 1provide further opportunities for children to hear, understand and learn new and advanced words beyond their current vocabulary
- 2support children to learn about good hygiene practices and why this is important, particularly for dealing with runny noses.
Inspection #10407935 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Staff identify gaps in children's learning and development quickly and provide impactful interventions. Funding for disadvantaged children is used effectively to meet their needs, ensuring all children make good progress.
Outdoor space
The environment indoors and outdoors allows children to select their own resources and activities. Children work together to create tunnels and hills in the sandpit.
Inspection history
Date: May 2012
- September 2025Good
- January 2020Good
- May 2016Good
- July 2015Good
- May 2012Good
Frequently asked about Gorran Pre-School
About the setting
Gorran Pre-School is run by a voluntary committee and was registered in 1977. It is located in Gorran, Cornwall, and is open Monday to Friday from 7.45am to 6pm, term time only. There are three members of staff, two of whom hold early years qualifications at level 3, and one is unqualified. The pre-school provides government funded early years education for all eligible children.
- URN
- 509092
- Registered person
- Gorran Preschool Committee
- Day care type
- Full day care
- Register
- Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
- Establishment type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
- Previous rating
- Good
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