Welcome to Pastures Way Nursery School & Children's Centre 

Open 8am - 6pm

Jan Allen

(Head Teacher)

Thank you for visiting our website. I hope you find it interesting and informative.

At Pastures Way Nursery School & Children's Centre we aim:

• To provide a welcoming, safe and stimulating learning environment.
• To nurture self esteem and respect.
• To encourage curiosity, independence, active learning and attainment.
• To promote good health and enjoyment.
• To develop and foster a learning culture that helps children and families become successful, enthusiastic and independent learners.

We believe children learn through play, first hand experience and meaningful conversation. They make sense of the world through exploring and experimenting.

We support children's learning by stimulating their natural curiosity and encouraging independence 

We had a successful Ofsted Inspection in March 2008 which stated:

This is a good and effective school. The leadership and management are good. The headteacher has a clear, accurate knowledge of what the school does well and of what needs to be improved. School self-evaluation matches inspection findings closely. The governing body provides a good level of support and challenge. As a result, children's progress and achievement are good. By the time they move on to their next schools, standards are broadly in line with those expected nationally overall and a small minority of children are already exceeding the standards expected for their age. This is particularly the case in personal development. There is a whole-school focus on this aspect of learning and the result is evident in the progress children make.

Pupils' personal development is good. Behaviour is good, due to the consistent approach of all staff and the high expectations they have for children. Their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is good. Attendance is good for children's young ages. Children make good progress in learning how to keep themselves healthy and safe and they make a good contribution to the community through such activities as collecting for charities and composting fruit and vegetable parings. Their good progress with basic skills means that they are being well prepared for their future lives. However, opportunities for children to talk about and evaluate their progress or to take responsibility for the choices they make, such as recording what activities they have chosen to undertake or explain to their peers how they got on, are more limited.

Overall, the quality of teaching and learning is good. The planning of lessons benefits from a good curriculum, which encourages many exciting and worthwhile activities. There is a good range of visitors to the school. Teachers have good relationships with children and sessions proceed calmly. The activities that form the focus of learning are interesting and exciting. Good use is made of resources such as puppets and computers to interest children still further. As a consequence, their enjoyment of their learning is extremely good, and they concentrate well. However, there is inconsistency in the quality of planning for the explicit links between assessment and evaluation of previous sessions and what activities are currently provided. As a result, monitoring by leaders is not as easy as it should be. The school development plan identifies this as an area for focus and this is planned for the forthcoming year.

This is a very caring school, which looks after children well and in which they feel safe and happy. They are positive about the school and clearly enjoy their lessons. The good improvements made since the last inspection show that the school has a good capacity to continue to improve.

We are always happy to show parents and visitors around.

Regards

Jan Allen

Headteacher

For the full report CLICK HERE