The Wood Shed Forest School and Nursery
Frylands Wood Scout Outdoor Centre, Featherbed Lane, Croydon, CR0 9AA
Type of Institution
Nursery
Age group
0-0 years old
Number of places
20 places
Number of staff
Not yet updated
Ofsted Rating
Outstanding
Summary
- The provision is outstanding Children are extremely happy here.
- They thoroughly enjoy being outside and learning about the natural world as they explore and investigate.
- Children concentrate and actively engage with their play and learning, supported by highly skil ed staff.
- The wel -planned curriculum provides an excel ent variety of activities that captivate the children's imaginations and allow them to be creative and independent thinkers.
- For example, children delighted in collecting leaves and twigs to create a reindeer.
- Managers and staff have high expectations of what children can achieve and are highly supportive of all children's individual needs.
- All children make very strong progress from their starting points, including disadvantaged children.
- Children know the routines exceptional y wel and this helps them to thrive.
- For example, they sit calmly during lunchtimes and interact with their friends and members of staff.
- For young children, this is an impressive feat.
- Children's behaviour is excel ent.
- They follow the 'forest rules' and have respect for each other.
- Staff constantly monitor the environment to ensure children's safety and teach them how to keep themselves safe in the woods.
- Staff are excel ent role models and create a warm and welcoming family atmosphere where children feel safe and secure.
- This helps children to settle quickly.
- What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?n The manager and his team are extremely dedicated and are committed toproviding the highest standards of care and education through a highly effective and broad curriculum.
- Teaching is consistently innovative and inspiring, providing activities that offer optimum challenge for children.
- Skilful teaching and extensive resources about the natural environment spark children's inquisitive nature.n Staff focus strongly on building children's communication and language skil sthrough effective questioning and meaningful discussions as they play.
- They use stories, rhymes, songs and activities to engage and inspire children.
- For example, staff play the guitar, and children thoroughly enjoy dancing and singing along to songs of their choice.n Relevant and effective training is ongoing and continuous to support staff'sprofessional development and ensure that they have an excel ent understanding of working with young children.
- Staff monitor children's progress closely and they skilfully plan for the next steps in learning.n Children have a wide variety of excel ent, interesting physical challenges.
- Theylearn to balance and climb confidently on logs and fallen trees and build their own hideouts.
- Staff make exceptionally good use of the forest to promote children's learning and to build their confidence, self-esteem and independence.
- Children learn to look after the wildlife as they handle minibeasts careful y and return them to their natural habitats.
Extract from latest Ofsted Report.
Overview
Manager
Not yet updated
Owner
Jigsaw (Croydon) Ltd
Provider type
Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises
Provider subtype
Full day care
Local authority
Croydon
Parliamentary Constituency
Croydon Central
Education Stages
Year Founded
16/10/2018
Education Provision
Education Stages
Nursery / Early Years
0 - 3 year olds
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