Ecole Du Parc

French and English conversation, an outdoor mud kitchen and children learning to manage their own coats shaped Ecole Du Parc's January 2024 inspection picture. This is the Stormont Road setting in London, with capacity for 45 children aged 24 to 60 months. Its appeal centres on language, independence and learning to share a day with other children.

At its January 2024 inspection, Ofsted rated the nursery Good and found safeguarding effective. The judgement came with two practical priorities: adapting adult conversation more closely to individual children and organising group activities so that everyone could benefit. Those details matter as much as the grade when considering a bilingual nursery.

Learning and Activities

The early years foundation stage provides the framework for children's learning, development and care: play and everyday routines help children build communication, physical skills and independence. In January 2024, the nursery's strongest curricular emphases were children's social and emotional development and their ability to communicate. French and English were both used in conversations, giving children opportunities to explain their ideas in either language.

Learning involved hands as well as words. In January 2024, children worked with play dough, painting tools and hole punches, practising movements that support later writing. Older children persisted with using tweezers to move pom-poms. These are concrete examples of practice through play, with a task small enough for children to attempt themselves.

Choice also mattered. Older children started their own play, while younger children investigated familiar objects in the outdoor mud kitchen. These January 2024 examples show children initiating play and exploring resources for themselves.

Outdoor and Community Life

In January 2024, outings included the library, extending learning beyond the nursery. Chinese New Year activities introduced cultural ideas, with older children discussing their families and the Chinese year associated with their birth. These experiences connected conversation to subjects children could relate to personally.

In January 2024, younger children explored everyday objects in the outdoor mud kitchen. For a parent choosing provision for a young child, that physical detail is more revealing than a broad promise of stimulating activities.

Relationships and Communication

In January 2024, children were comfortable with staff and formed friendships with one another. Adults used a calm manner, helped children wait for popular toys and taught simple expectations about moving safely and tidying up. Care and learning overlapped: sharing a resource was also a chance to practise patience.

Visual timetables and sand timers helped children understand the day's sequence. Self-care received similar attention, including cleaning their faces after eating and putting on their own coats. These small routines gave children repeated opportunities to do something for themselves.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

At its January 2024 inspection, Ofsted found that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities received effective support through care plans developed with professionals and parents, and that parent partnership supported settling, progress updates and learning at home. For families whose child needs coordinated support, the important mechanism is the connection between home, practitioners and outside professionals.

In January 2024, staff also taught hygiene and safe use of equipment, including handwashing and sitting safely on chairs and rockers. The improvement priorities remained relevant to care: some adult speech was too rapid or question-heavy, while some large-group activities lost children's attention. A calm relationship alone did not ensure that every interaction or group session matched each child's needs.

The address is Evangelical Church Of Yahweh London, 2 Stormont Road, London SW11 5EN. The setting opens during term time, Monday to Friday, from 7.50am to 6pm, and closes for school holidays. That calendar is a substantial part of the choice for families needing childcare beyond term dates.

Capacity is a whole-nursery measure, rather than the number of children sharing one activity or attending together each day. The 45 places should therefore be read as the setting's overall size, not a group-size promise.

• Language interactions. In January 2024, some conversations moved too quickly or involved too many questions for individual children. During a visit, ask how practitioners adapt French and English conversation to a child's understanding and pace.
• Group activities. Some larger gatherings lost children's attention in January 2024. Ask how activities are organised now so children with different learning needs can participate meaningfully.
• Term-time calendar. School holidays are closure periods. Families needing continuous care should weigh that arrangement alongside the weekday opening hours.

Ecole Du Parc suits families seeking a term-time bilingual nursery. The January 2024 picture combines French and English conversation, independence practised through ordinary tasks, friendships and cultural learning with specific weaknesses in conversation and group organisation. That inspection-time combination of language and self-help gives families more to weigh than a grade alone.