Tanglewood Nursery School

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Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school Children are exceptionally happy at Tanglewood Nursery. They develop independence and confidence in their time at the school and are well prepared to move to primary school. The teaching, support and guidance that children receive are of an extremely high standard and enable them to make excellent progress in all areas of their learning.

Leaders have high expectations of what children can achieve. These aspirations are shared by all the adults, who work very well as a team to plan, support and challenge each child as an individual. There is a clear focus throughout all teaching on expanding children's vocabulary.

Adults model clea...r speaking and encourage children to engage in discussion using clear speech. Children's imagination and curiosity are encouraged well by the range of open-ended activities on offer at all times. They develop strong physical skills through building and climbing.

They become independent and focus on their chosen activities well. The governing body has taken effective action in the last year to develop its practice and provides strong support and challenge to school leaders. Leaders have created a cohesive community of which parents and carers are a key part.

The parents feel very well supported and involved in their children's early education. They are all extremely positive about the experience of their children at Tanglewood. There is a greater-than-average proportion of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

These children are fully included in school life and make excellent progress from their starting points. As with virtually all of the children, the most able are very well prepared for primary school. However, there is not enough emphasis on them starting to use correct letter formation to represent initial sounds.

In mathematics, the most able do not have enough opportunities to link numerals to objects or represent numbers in different ways.

Information about this school

There are three classes in the three- to five-year-old section and one class in the two- to three-year-old section, Little Tanglewood. The school runs two sessions daily in both sections of the school, morning and afternoon.

Children either attend morning or afternoon. Some children in Little Tanglewood attend part-time. The school has a speech and language centre, funded in partnership by the local authority and the healthcare service, Provide.

This is staffed by specialist speech and language therapists working alongside speech and language learning support assistants. The school holds the enhanced healthy schools award. The school works closely with other local schools in the Tanglewood Partnership.

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