Nursery Care Inspection Success

As you know, in February our nursery underwent a Care Inspection under the new model of inspection.

They graded us: 

  • Quality of care and support 5 – Very Good
  • Quality of management and leadership 4 – Good

Some of the positives from the report included: 

  • We found the nursery to be welcoming with a warm and friendly atmosphere.
  • Children experienced kindness and compassion from staff that used physical affection, for example high fives and cuddles, to ensure children felt
    supported and secure.
  • The service provided different opportunities for parents to stay and participate in their child’s nursery experience, including termly ‘stay and play’ sessions.
  • A nursery blog, weekly newsletter and online learning journal were in place to share updates with parents.
  • Children requiring additional support had individualised plans in place which were subject to regular review.
  • Staff worked in partnership with other professionals, such as speech and language therapists and a link educational psychologist to ensure children experienced consistent and stable support.
  • It was evident staff valued snack time and understood the learning opportunities and positive experiences it could provide. Children enjoyed an unhurried snack in a relaxed atmosphere with many different conversations and social interaction taking place.
  • Children were encouraged to be active and had daily access to a well-equipped nursery garden.
  •  Staff supported children to risk assess independently by teaching them how to make judgments based on their
    individual abilities.
  • Staff told us they felt supported by the senior leadership team and all newly appointed staff confirmed they had a mentor to support their integration into the team.
  • Pumpherston and Uphall Station Community Primary School
    had experienced a number of recent changes, including staff roles and responsibilities, and their overarching approach to play, learning and development. The changes had been well led and managed, and were having a
    positive impact on children.
  • We found a strong commitment from senior leaders and staff to collegiate working within the setting and wider learning community.

You can read the full report here:

Nursery Care Inspecorate Report 2019

The positive finding of this reports reflects effectively our nursery team work together to provide high quality learning experiences and care for our children.

School Improvement Documents

Every year we publish a School Standards & Quality report which outlines the progress we have made over the last session and a School Improvement Plan which outlines the work we plan to carry out this session.  Both of these documents are available by clicking the links below.

Click the link here to download a copy of the School Standards & Quality Report (S&Q) for last session: 2018 S&Q Report Schools & ELC_PUSCPS

Click the  link here to download a copy of the current School Improvement Plan (SIP): PUSCPS_School_Imp_Plan_2018-19

Click the link to view a copy of the school inspection report from November 2017:  School Inspection Report

Click the link to view a copy of the school inspection report from November 2017:  Nursery Inspection Report

Inspection Celebration Assembly

This morning we welcomed children, staff, parents and carers, and friends of PUSCPS to join us to celebrate our recent inspection findings. It was lovely to welcome back Mr Eagleson for the occasion.

Our house and vice captains led the assembly and we joined together to sing some of our favourite songs:

  • Our School Song
  • You are a Star
  • and a new song that we have been learning Glorious

They also shared with us our school and nursery gradings.

Miss Burton shared a few words about our school and Mrs Dickie shared a few words about our nursery. We also watched some videos that we made this week which share why we are so proud of our school.

https://vimeo.com/251737663

https://vimeo.com/251732671

We even had a special school cake – which we really enjoyed eating (shhhh … don’t tell our parents/ carers!).

Thank you to everyone who came along to join our celebration.

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