Orchard House Nursery School

Ofsted rating for Orchard House Nursery School

Last inspected 17 January 2024

What it's like to attend

• The knowledgeable manager and her dedicated staff team create a warm and welcoming environment where each child is highly valued and feels happy, safe, and secure.
• Flexible settling-in sessions are prioritised to develop strong attachments, ensuring children are keen to attend nursery and ready to learn.
• Children demonstrate positive attitudes to learning, supported by a robust cycle of observation and assessment that focuses on their interests and skills.
• Children behave well and are kind and considerate, with staff acting as positive role models and providing clear explanations of positive behaviour.
• Leaders and staff are passionate about supporting children to make the best possible progress, with robust self-evaluation ensuring positive outcomes.
• Staff competently cater for any allergies or food preferences, and children develop impressive self-care skills, such as serving themselves vegetables.
• A true strength of the nursery is the partnerships with parents and carers, who provide extremely positive comments about their children's experiences.
• The nursery is open for 51 weeks of the year, providing full day care for children aged 0 to 4.
• The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three-, and four-year-old children.
• Parents value the information staff share about their child's day and ideas for learning at home.
• Children concentrate intently as they roll and knead dough, use scissors, and thread pasta shapes, developing fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
• Simple mathematical concepts are introduced to children, promoting concentration, perseverance, and determination.

• 1Build on staff's knowledge of the curriculum intent so they are clear about the skills and knowledge they want children to gain during their time at nursery.
• 2Support staff to consistently model the correct pronunciation of vocabulary, to promote children's communication and language skills to the highest level.