Nursery ‘teaching kids they can get away with breaking rules’
CHILDREN are unkind and snatch each others’ toys at an inadequate nursery school which teaches kids if they ‘break rules they can get away with it’, a watchdog says.
Ofsted has released the results from a damning inspection into Werneth Nursery and Preschool in Oldham.
Inspector Luke Heaney rated the Cambridge Street facility ‘inadequate’ in every area - including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development and leadership and management.
Staff do not always ‘teach children what is right from wrong’ and the safety of youngsters who attend the pre-school ‘ cannot not be assured’, the inspection found.
The nursery’s registered person, Tabasum Tanzeela, said they were addressing the issues raised in the inspection and hope to be ‘good or outstanding’ by the next visit.
Inspector Heaney said that youngsters currently attending the pre-school do not make good progress, adding activities are ‘mundane and lack intent’.
“Children demonstrate poor behaviour and attitudes towards their learning,” he states.
“They snatch toys and are unkind towards one another,” he said. “Staff lack the skill and expertise to deal with children’s behaviour.
“Consequently, some children learn that if they break rules they can get away with it, which directly contradicts the rule of law.”
Low expectations, poor teaching and a weak curriculum mean children do not gain the necessary skills in readiness for school, Ofsted says. And the inspector says they are not provided with the ‘quality education that they rightly deserve’.
However, the inspector highlighted some positives, including effective parental partnerships. “The manager shows a positive attitude to remedy the shortfalls identified,” he said.