Lowmoor Nursery

Ofsted rating for Lowmoor Nursery

Last inspected 7 April 2025

What it's like to attend

• Children receive a warm welcome, and staff form positive relationships with children and parents.
• Leaders ensure an effective key-person system is in place, and staff know the children well.
• All children, including those with SEND, progress well in their learning and development.
• Leaders and staff plan a sequenced and ambitious curriculum that consistently builds on what children already know and can do.
• The nursery embeds a strong emphasis on core stories to encourage children to develop a love of early literacy.
• Staff support babies to develop an understanding of different colours, and toddlers confidently relate feelings to colours.
• Staff are clear about their expectations of behaviour, and children adhere to these well.
• Partnerships with parents are good, with support offered through a lending library, regular events, and a weekly food bank.
• The impressive newly added outdoor area is loved by all the children, supporting physical development.
• Children with SEND and those in receipt of additional funding are well supported, with early interventions and tailored support in place.
• Overall, staff support children's communication and language development effectively and are good role models for the children's language.
• Leaders prioritise staff's well-being, providing regular opportunities to discuss how they feel at work and access training.
• The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with an open and positive culture that puts children's interests first.

• 1strengthen the monitoring of staff practice to ensure their teaching always has the best possible impact on children's development
• 2consider ways to improve hygiene practices so that they are consistently embedded to promote children's understanding of good hygiene.