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Westminster Nursery School is a 52 place Maintained Nursery. From September 2010 the school has offered parents the opportunity to have greater flexibility in how they wish to access their child’s 15 hours of free nursery education - options include both half and full day attendance, depending on current availability. Some parents have expressed an interest in extending their child’s 15 hours free entitlement by purchasing extra hours. The Governing Body of the school is presently considering this option and looking to formulate a Charging Policy, with guidance from the Local Authority, and further details of this will be available as soon as they are finalised..
Our latest Ofsted Inspection in December 2011 states, "This is an outstanding school. Key to its success is the outstanding care, guidance and support it provides for all children…". Click here to download the full report.
Click here to download our 2009 IQM Report or Click here to view our previous Ofsted Report from 2009.
Currently parents are invited to visit us with their child during the term prior to admission. This provides the opportunity to meet with key workers and discuss any issues that are of concern to them, whilst enabling the children to sample a selection of our activities.
If you have any questions or concerns at any time, please do not hesitate to speak to the Head Teacher, Mrs Smith, or your child’s key worker.
We look forward to getting to know you and your child during your time with us. Young children enter the nursery with a wealth of experience to draw on, we aim to build on this past experience, to recognise and value what they already know and can do and support and extend their learning. We welcome the opportunity to work in close partnership with parents to achieve these aims. In recognition of this, the school has been awarded the ‘Family Learning Quality Standards Kitemark’.
Your child’s ‘Learning Journey’ is compiled in a ‘special’ book which is used to record their time at Westminster Nursery School in a fun and interesting way. It will show their achievements, special interests and chosen activities across the six areas of learning which make up the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. We hope you will add any comments, accounts of special days and outings, photographs or anything you feel would make this book more special. At the end of your child’s time in Nursery, you will be able to keep this as a memory of their time with us. Children also receive Half Termly assessments and an Annual Report on transfer to their Primary School.
We hope your child will enjoy coming to our nursery. Research shows that good quality nursery education has many long term benefits. The school has achieved the ‘Effective Early Learning Quality Assurance Award’ and the ‘Investors in Children Award’ for the excellent quality of provision attained.
The ‘Inclusion Quality Mark’ has been awarded in recognition of the school‘s success in providing a safe, happy, caring and challenging environment, which promotes an ethos of inclusion and entitlement for all.
  
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