By Andrew Clarke

Published at 15:46, Wednesday, 03 February 2010

CLEATOR Moor Nursery School is celebrating after achieving another glowing report from Ofsted inspectors.

The school received the highest grade possible in almost every category, with the school’s outstanding level of care, safety, leadership and teaching all being singled out for special praise from the inspectors.

“The school continues to provide an outstanding start to children’s early education,” said the inspectors, who spent two days at the Ennerdale Road school in December.

“In all key areas of provision, excellence has been maintained since the last inspection and good improvements have been made. The success of the school is firmly rooted in the superb leadership of the head teacher, Valerie Bailey, and a team of exceptionally skilled and highly effective governors. They are all together committed to the children’s success, happiness and safety.

“Excellent teaching, rigorous assessment and an exciting curriculum enable all children to achieve exceptionally well. Outstanding progress is made in all areas of learning.

“In personal and social development, the gains made by the children are particularly significant. The children show a real joy for learning and love their school.

“High quality support and outstanding relationships have resulted in children making excellent progress. Good attendance and punctuality reflect the children’s great enjoyment of school.

“The exciting learning environment ensures that all children are extremely keen to learn and try out new things. They regularly plan and review their own work, gaining important skills that prepare them exceptionally well for the future.

“Excellent organisation, clear routines and outstanding role models provided by the staff result in the children behaving exceptionally well, respecting each other’s differences and feeling totally safe.

“Excellent and sometimes inspirational teaching contributes strongly to children’s outstanding learning and development. Highly effective assessment systems are used to plan rich and challenging activities across all areas of learning.

“Children are exceptionally well supported and nurtured throughout their time in the nursery. They are quickly helped to feel safe and secure and procedures for safeguarding are rigorous and highly effective.”

A questionnaire was also completed by the majority of parents which found: “The school clearly enjoys the complete confidence and support of every parent and carer who returned the questionnaire. They express strong levels of satisfaction and there were no areas of concern.”

The only area in which the school can improve, inspectors found, is to raise achievement in ICT from good to outstanding.

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