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Sunflower Sherards

Ofsted: GoodNursery

Ployters Road, Harlow, CM18 7PS

Provider type

Nursery

Capacity

16 children

Key details

Capacity

16 places

Ofsted Inspection Summary

Sunflower Sherards was inspected by Ofsted on 10 March 2025 and received an overall rating of Good. In their report, inspectors noted: "Children confidently part from their parents and carers on arrival at the pre-school, where they are greeted by kind and caring staff. Children are greeted by their friends and quickly join them in their play. Some enjoy using their imagination as they dress in beautiful princess costumes and parade through the setting."

Key strengths

  • Staff now receive more effective training to help them understand the pre- school's safeguarding procedures, which have been updated to include what action to…
  • Parents speak highly of the staff and management team.
  • Children listen attentively to stories read excitingly and engagingly by staff.
  • Children enjoy participating in creative activities.
  • Staff find out about children's home language when they first start at the pre- school.

Areas for improvement

  • review the use of available resources and teaching strategies to promote children's creativity and enable them to freely express themselves
  • build on staff's understanding of the importance of using children's home languages to help children understand and extend their communication skills
  • strengthen the implementation of mathematics to support children to use numbers and counting during their play.
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Location

Ployters Road, Harlow, CM18 7PS

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