Chestnut Nursery School (St Giles)

Chestnut Nursery Norfolk Ltd. St. Giles was inspected on 25 October 2024 under the legacy EYFS framework (Quality of Education, Behaviour & Attitudes, Personal Development, Leadership & Management), with all areas graded as 'Good' and overall effectiveness rated 'Good'. This report has been mapped to the November 2025 seven-area framework: Safeguarding (Met=100), Inclusion (Good=75), Curriculum and Teaching (Good=75), Achievement (Good=75), Behaviour/Attitudes/Routines (Good=75), Welfare/Well-being (Good=75), and Leadership/Governance (Good=75), yielding an overall score of 75. The nursery demonstrates significant strengths in inclusive practice, warm relationships, well-being focus, and reflective leadership. The single area for improvement identified by the inspector relates to speech and language development: staff occasionally do not provide sufficient wait time for children's responses or use open-ended questioning consistently enough to maximise language practice opportunities.