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Human Resources

 
Bulletin Date: 
Tuesday, 4 February, 2020
Action: 
Information Only
Audience: 
All staff

The University is pleased to report that the University Nursery at West Cambridge, run by Childbase Partnership, has been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted for the second time running and retains its place at the top of national league tables.

The report from the inspection in January is available to view on the Ofsted webpages and an extract of some of the comments are provided below:

“Children thrive in this extremely welcoming and nurturing nursery. Staff have very high expectations for all children and ensure that they benefit from a safe, highly exciting and inspiring environment.”

“There are many opportunities provided to enrich children's communication and language skills. Children are encouraged to talk about what they are doing and staff ask thought-provoking questions. As a result, children are confident speakers. Children who are learning English as an additional language are very well supported and make rapid progress in their communication skills.”

“Practitioners nurture a love of reading in children. They use books, songs and props to ignite children's interest in stories. As a result, children delight in listening to and retelling their favourite stories with adults.”

“Staff are very talented at encouraging children to solve problems and apply critical thinking. Children are inquisitive and enjoy experimentation. They are enthusiastic to test out different ways to use the resources.”

“There are well-established systems in place to help children when they are ready to move through to the next room and on to school. Parents comment that their child settled extremely well at school because they had already practised the routines at the nursery.”

Further information on the University’s workplace nurseries is available on the Childcare Office webpages.  

Bulletin ID: 
88
Bulletin Summary: 
West Cambridge Nursery rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted