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Muriel Green Nursery School

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Oct 2024)
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4.2(9 parent reviews)
·Church Crescent, St. Albans, AL3 5JB · Hertfordshire
Number of places
60 places
Age range
0–3 yrs
Last inspected
Oct 2024
Local authority
Hertfordshire

About this day nursery

Muriel Green Nursery School, located in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, is a full day care setting for children aged 0 to 3, established in 2001. The nursery was most recently rated Outstanding by Ofsted on 9 October 2024, maintaining the high standards achieved in its previous inspection.

It operates 49 weeks a year, from Monday to Friday, with sessions running from 7:45 am to 6:15 pm. The dedicated team of 19 childcare staff, 10 of whom hold qualifications at Level 2 and above, and five with qualified teacher status, ensure a nurturing and stimulating environment.

The curriculum is thoughtfully designed around each child's individual needs, fostering strong emotional security and exceptional social development. Children benefit from a rich learning environment that prioritises outdoor exploration and offers numerous opportunities to develop early language, mathematical, and literacy skills.

Parental partnerships are highly valued, with parents consistently praising the staff and feeling well-informed about their children's progress, further supported by resources like borrowable book bags.

What it's like

Children thrive in this nurturing and rich learning environment. Home visits enable the relationships between children and their key person to begin from the outset. These visits allow staff to get to know children exceptionally well. Staff build on children's emotional security as they welcome them warmly and have toys and activities available that they know children enjoy. This helps all children to feel completely safe and secure. They display exceptionally high levels of well-being and become deeply involved in their play. Children demonstrate immense pride in their achievements.

Nurturing environmentRich learningOutstanding SENDStrong partnershipsDedicated staff

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday for 49 weeks of the year. Sessions are from 7.45am to 6.15pm.

Term time / All Year

All_year

Established

2001

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Muriel Green Nursery School

Last inspected 9 October 2024

Overall effectiveness
Outstanding

What it's like to attend

Children thrive in this nurturing and rich learning environment. Home visits enable the relationships between children and their key person to begin from the outset. These visits allow staff to get to know children exceptionally well. Staff build on children's emotional security as they welcome them warmly and have toys and activities available that they know children enjoy. This helps all children to feel completely safe and secure. They display exceptionally high levels of well-being and become deeply involved in their play. Children demonstrate immense pride in their achievements.

Inspector highlights

  • Staff create an environment where all children consistently receive high-quality learning experiences.
  • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported by passionate and experienced staff.
  • Partnerships with parents are excellent, with parents giving utmost praise for the staff.
  • Outdoor learning is given the highest priority, with a superb garden area for play and exploration.
  • Children developing strong communication and language skills is a key focus area for staff, with support for early language skills and sign language.
  • The management team is extremely strong and dedicated to its role, continuously enhancing the nursery.
  • The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with an open and positive culture.
  • Children demonstrate highly positive attitudes to learning, remaining engaged in activities for long periods.
  • Children make excellent progress as they learn in the moment and prepare for the next stage of their education.
Inspection #10354992 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are supported by passionate and experienced staff. Children with SEND have targeted next steps in learning in place, which are developed alongside parents and other specialists, such as physiotherapists. This ensures that all children receive the highest standard of teaching, which is adapted to their level of learning.

Outdoor space

Outdoor learning is given the highest priority. The garden area is a superb learning environment, where children deeply immerse themselves in play and exploration. Staff support this by consistently noticing and acting on moments where they can extend children's learning.

Parent Reviews of Muriel Green Nursery School

4.2
(9)
Bionic Life
6 months ago

Muriel Green brings about a lot of nostalgia when mentioned as it’s existed and served the community for over a decade and many generations. So, their reputation makes it a strong brand. They are able to mask the actual complacency, and sloppiness behind the smiles- in their disregard for the children and their well-being. Given that they are more trained then they were many years ago, they have become so in-genuine in what they are doing. It’s a pity they cannot let a child simply be happy and provide that happiness without impinging it with their own subjective judgement. A person who works in a nursery and cannot make a child happy might be described as having a lack of patience or interpersonal skills, struggling with a poor understanding of child behaviour. Whether, staff are no longer required to connect with children on their level in this day and age in this job? Or showing poor communication or interpersonal skills, with difficulty in building rapport and making a child feel comfortable is no longer a component? I would say is regrettable for the nursery and sadly it is more detrimental to the child. Therefore. I give it two reviews because it does a very good job of keeping up the persona it might have once lived up too.

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Patrick
a year ago

Fantastic, nurturing place where children thrive. The staff are incredibly warm and attentive, creating a safe, fun, and engaging environment. With excellent facilities and a caring approach, it’s a wonderful choice for early years care!

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Jem
3 years ago

I went to visit Muriel Green Nursery and was shown around by Sue. Sue and the staff are so lovely and you get a real sense of them being a family… they care about what they do! The children were all happy and I absolutely loved the visit. Thank you for showing us around

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Ksenija Shambrook
5 years ago

We never got a chance to send our daughter to this nursery which I must say, came highly recommended by a few of our neighbours. The reason for one star is down to absolutely appalling communication from the nursery manager: noone ever came back to us when I originally requested some information about the nursery, I must have chased 5 times; every time the manager said she will review our application, confirm the space or send us bank details to transfer the deposit etc., she never did without constant reminders from us; she was rude on a phone and just wouldn't listen. The icing on the cake was when the open morning was cancelled an hour before our appointment and we were notified via email - she didn't even bother to call or respond to emails/calls. When I sent her an email to say how disappointed I was with the way we were notified (I was 8 months pregnant and went to the open morning after a sleepless night feeling absolutely awful), she just said she was sorry to cancel the morning due to Covid. Long story short, we withdrew our application due to awful communication and manager's rudeness and her inability to listen.

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Sara Argent
2 years ago

A wonderful, caring and nurturing environment

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Inspection history
Improved from Good → Outstanding in 2024

Date: July 2013

  • October 2024Outstanding
  • July 2014Good
  • July 2013Inadequate

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