Woodlands Park Nursery School and Childrens Centre

Inspection of an outstanding school: Woodlands Park Nursery School and Childrens Centre Woodlands Park Road, Tottenham, London N15 3SD

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Outcome

Woodlands Park Nursery School and Children’s Centre continues to be an outstanding school.

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What is it like to attend this school?

Children enjoy coming to school every day. They arrive happy and cannot wait to meet their friends and start playing. Children flourish thanks to the nurture and care of adults and exciting learning opportunities.

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What is it like to attend this school?

Leaders and staff have very high expectations for all children, especially those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). They help to keep children safe. Children have extremely positive attitudes towards their play and learning. Staff teach children to understand how to look after themselves, physically and mentally. They provide many resources to support children's development. Young children experiment in the outdoor area to make ‘potions’ from coloured liquids and different herbs. They create vivid wall designs using paint rollers.

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What is it like to attend this school?

Staff capture children’s interests. They encourage children to think creatively and develop their independence. For example, children learn stories and songs during ‘island time’. Staff help children to behave excellently and remain focused. Children achieve very well here. They are fully ready for their next stages in education.

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What is it like to attend this school?

Staff work closely with parents and carers who spoke highly of the school. They valued that their children could thrive at the school.

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What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?

Staff understand children’s interests and consider carefully what, and how, children will learn. Leaders plan an exciting curriculum. They provide a challenging and stimulating environment for children to explore and develop curiosity. Staff enable children to expand their knowledge and understanding thoroughly across all areas of learning. They help to develop children’s social skills and encourage them to become resilient learners. 7 and 8 June 2023

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Children develop a broad and rich vocabulary and become confident communicators. Staff make sure that children have access to a wide range of books, reading materials and resources. Staff support children to develop their communication and language skills. They ensure that children have regular, well-planned story times to listen to rhymes and poems.

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Staff support children to learn new vocabulary very well. For example, they modelled new words and practised their use with children while making model cakes. They helped children to use words accurately when describing how to fill containers with water. Staff help to deepen children’s curiosity and creativity. Children loved developing videos of their space mission and role playing their ideas about pirate stories. Staff encourage children to be adventurous and take measured risks. Children took great delight and showed determination and resilience in swinging across bars on the climbing frame.

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Leaders identify the needs of children with SEND very carefully. They work diligently with external agencies so that they can provide children with help and guidance they need. Staff make appropriate adaptions to activities and support children with SEND very well. This helps these children to learn very successfully.

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Leaders enhance the curriculum further with many visits. For instance, children take part in many outings to the local area, visit the landmarks of London and use public transport. Staff help to develop children’s wider interests through regular art and music activities. This leads to exciting work, for example when children created their own wall designs and music compositions. Children really enjoyed sharing their performances and artwork.

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Staff help develop children’s behaviour with great expertise. They encourage children to think about their behaviour and how it affects others. Staff support children to make choices, such as deciding on their meals as part of a ‘family table’ at lunchtimes. Each child has a trusted adult who takes a particular interest in their welfare. Consequently, children are very well supported and play well together. They cooperate when sharing equipment. Staff make sure children settle into the school environment very quickly. This helps children to learn without interruption.

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The governing body reviews the quality of the care and education children receive regularly. They know the school well and support and challenge school leaders consistently. Leaders are considerate of staff’s workload and well-being.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Leaders make sure that all staff complete regular training to ensure their safeguarding knowledge is up to date. Staff contribute to a strong safeguarding culture, including the reporting procedures. Leaders build strong links to appropriate external agencies. Consequently, they are aware of the procedures to follow should there be any concerns regarding a child's welfare. 7 and 8 June 2023

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Leaders take children’s safety very seriously, including making sure that children are kept safe during outings. Staff help children are learn how to play safely.

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Background

When we have judged a school to be outstanding, we will then normally go into the school about once every four years to confirm that the school remains outstanding. This is called an ungraded inspection and it is carried out under section 8 of the Education Act 2005. We do not give graded judgements on an ungraded inspection. However, if we find evidence that a school would now receive a higher or lower grade, then the next inspection will be a graded inspection, which is carried out under section 5 of the Act. Usually this is within one to two years of the date of the ungraded inspection. If we have serious concerns about safeguarding, behaviour or the quality of education, we will deem the ungraded inspection a graded inspection immediately.

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Background

This is the first ungraded inspection since we judged the school to be outstanding in December 2017.

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How can I feed back my views?

find out what other parents and carers think. We use information from Ofsted Parent View when deciding which schools to inspect, when to inspect them and as part of their inspection.

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How can I feed back my views?

The Department for Education has further guidance on how to complain about a school.

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Further information

You can search for published performance information about the school.

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Further information

In the report, 'disadvantaged pupils' refers to those pupils who attract government pupil premium funding: pupils claiming free school meals at any point in the last six years and pupils in care or who left care through adoption or another formal route. 7 and 8 June 2023

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School details

Inspection number 10268745 Type of school Nursery and Children's centre

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School details

Appropriate authority The governing body

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School details

Website www.woodlandspark-nur.haringey.sch.uk

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School details

Date of previous inspection 12 and 13 December 2017, under section 8 of the Education Act 2005

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Information about this school

 The school offers provision to children between the ages of two and four years old.  The school does not use alternative provision.

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Information about this inspection

 This was the first routine inspection the school received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with leaders and has taken that into account in their evaluation.  The inspector spoke to the executive headteacher, the deputy headteacher and other senior staff. The inspector spoke with representatives from the local authority and members of the governing body. The inspector also met with a range of staff.  The inspector carried out deep dives in these subjects: communication and language, personal, emotional and social development, and understanding the world. For each deep dive, the inspector discussed the curriculum with leaders, visited a sample of lessons, spoke to staff, spoke to some children about their learning and looked at samples of children’s work. 7 and 8 June 2023

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 A range of documentation was also scrutinised, including leaders’ plans to improve the school, their self-evaluation document and information published on the school’s website. The inspector also looked at records of governors’ meetings.  When inspecting safeguarding, the inspector considered the school’s safeguarding policy and spoke to staff about their understanding. The inspector spoke to leaders about how safeguarding concerns and incidents are reported.  The inspector spoke to parents at the start of morning and afternoon Nursery sessions. Inspectors took account of parents’ comments, including responses to Ofsted’s online surveys.

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Inspection team

Phil Garnham, lead inspector His Majesty's Inspector 7 and 8 June 2023

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