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Nursery at Moat Farm Infant School
Last reviewed: October 2026 · Inspection data and key information above update regularly, however, this review below is refreshed bi-annually and may not reflect recent changes. Contact the nursery directly to confirm current arrangements. If you spot anything outdated or inaccurate, please let us know.
Playdough, scissors and early conversations give Moat Farm’s nursery its character: small, practical steps towards using tools, expressing ideas and learning alongside other children. Provision begins with two-year-olds within Moat Farm Infant School in Oldbury. The emphasis is on what children can do now and the next skills they need, rather than treating their starting points as interchangeable.
In November 2025, Ofsted judged early years to be at the Expected standard. That judgement covers the school’s early years provision, including its work with two-year-olds; it is not a separate nursery rating. Children made a positive beginning, with adults building learning around their interests and individual needs.
Learning takes shape through play and conversation with adults. Staff use their knowledge of each child to extend what they can already do, while children practise working and playing together. For parents, the useful distinction is that play has a learning purpose: an adult’s interaction can help a child explain an idea, try a task or take part with others.
The early years foundation stage gives particular attention here to communication, physical skills and learning to relate to others. Cutting with scissors, handling playdough and making marks develop the hand control needed for tools and, later, letters. These are concrete activities with a clear next step.
By November 2025, children were using their knowledge of numbers, letters and sounds in counting, writing and reading. Nursery children were ready for the phonics learning that follows in Reception. Communication also runs through the day: children express their thinking through gestures as well as words and sentences, giving them different ways to participate.
Knowing the child is central to the early years approach. Adults understand children’s personalities, interests and needs, then build on their individual starting points. That matters for a young child whose confidence in talking or joining play may differ from their confidence with a practical activity.
Lunch also has a learning role. Adults encourage independence, considerate manners and healthy food choices; children could explain a connection between carrots, vitamin A and eye health in November 2025. Everyday routines provide further opportunities to practise being courteous and making friends. Care and learning overlap here.
Parents are involved in supporting learning beyond nursery. The school maintains close links with families so that they can help their children learn at home, connecting the child’s experiences across the two settings.
Attending the nursery does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through the normal admissions process by the normal deadline.
Preparation for the next stage is a different matter from admission. The nursery’s work on communication, hand control and early sounds helps children develop skills they will use next; that educational preparation should not be read as an entitlement to a place.
The nursery is part of Moat Farm Infant School on Brookfields Road, Oldbury, B68 9QR. Families can contact the school on 01215521885.
Yes. The early years provision includes children aged two.
Early years was judged at the Expected standard in November 2025. This was a judgement within the school’s inspection, rather than a separate nursery rating.
Children handle playdough, cut with scissors and make marks, developing skills for using tools and forming letters.
No. Families must apply separately for Reception through the normal admissions process by the normal deadline.
The school’s telephone number is 01215521885. Its address is Brookfields Road, Oldbury, B68 9QR.
