Nursery World - Learning & Development: Inspections

A positive inspection is vital, but so too are other measures of effective provision. By Dr Julian Grenier

A few weeks ago, I was talking to someone whose work I really admire. She is a highly successful leader in the early years, and she is also a practitioner who made a real difference to me when I met her many years ago, running a Stay and Play session in her nursery when my daughter was two years old.

I gained a lot of courage from her confidence to allow ‘visiting’ children to play alongside children on roll, and from the wonderful range of challenging experiences on offer inside and outdoors. So, I was a little surprised when she said to me, ‘We just had Ofsted again – it was my seventh, but I still feel really anxious and nervous every time.’

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