OFSTED

The Children's Workshop received it's first Ofsted grading as a new Limited company in January 2025.

Please follow the link below for the Ofsted report.

Ofsted Report 2025

Highlights from the report:

Children demonstrate that they feel safe and secure as they rush into the preschool, eager to start the day.
The well-qualified and highly experienced staff team provides a warm, welcoming, and inclusive environment where children flourish.
Children behave well. They play harmoniously with their friends and happily take turns and share.
Staff set clear boundaries to help children to understand why rules exist, especially those that help to keep them safe.
All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make good progress from their starting points.
The enthusiastic leaders and their staff have created an ambitious curriculum to ensure that children achieve the best possible outcomes.
They provide an abundance of activities and experiences to encourage children to explore, investigate and find out new things.
They quickly identify children who have gaps in their learning and provide small group activities to help them to catch up. Subsequently, children with communication and language delays are making rapid progress.
Children enjoy listening to staff as they read to them with energy and enthusiasm.
Mark-making resources are plentiful and staff encourage children to follow their own interests.
Staff boost children's emerging literacy skills well.
Songs, rhymes, and stories are an integral part of everyday routines and books are easily accessible.
Overall, teaching is good.
Staff interact well with children.
They engage in conversations with them and ask questions to check what they know and remember.
Partnerships with parents are strong.
Leaders and staff provide them with regular updates on their children's progress and make suggestions on how they can support learning at home.
Parents comment that their children love attending the pre-school and have made rapid progress.
Leaders are committed to ensuring that staff's well-being and professional development are well maintained.

Area for Improvement:

help staff to recognise how to adapt activities so they meet the individual learning needs of the younger children.