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Nursery at Indian Queens Primary 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 If you spot anything outdated or inaccurate, please let us know.
Busy Learning gives this nursery its character: children choose resources, revisit skills and work out ideas through play. Language and independence are central. Nursery provision belongs to Indian Queens Primary School in Cornwall and includes two-year-olds, with a dedicated lead for that age group within the nursery team.
At the Ofsted inspection on 28 and 29 January 2025, the school's early years provision received a Good judgement. This covers early years within the school, rather than a separately inspected nursery. The nursery operates in term time, with morning, afternoon and full-day options, giving families a choice between shorter sessions and a longer day.
Play combines children's choices with activities directed by adults. Whole-class teaching and smaller groups sit alongside Busy Learning, the nursery's name for time spent choosing and using learning resources. Children can practise something already taught, make decisions and tackle problems. Adults adjust the learning opportunities around children's interests, so those choices help shape what happens next.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) connects learning with children's development and care. Here, that means attention to movement, relationships and communication alongside maths, literacy, creative expression and discovering how the world works. Practitioners observe children during activities and use their individual development and interests to plan learning. It is a play-based approach with purposeful teaching woven through it.
Outdoor learning extends the indoor provision, with the outdoor environment used whenever possible. For younger children, art includes experimenting with paint using fingers and tools, noticing contrasting patterns and beginning to make deliberate marks. These activities give children ways to investigate materials and express ideas before writing becomes their main means of recording them.
In January 2025, the early years curriculum combined planned knowledge with children's interests, while nursery learning emphasised developing language and doing more independently. Stories, songs and rhymes also supported early reading, and nursery children practised the routines used in the phonics programme.
A Nursery Room Leader works within a team that includes an Early Years Lead, a lead for two-year-olds and teaching assistants. That structure gives the youngest children a distinct leadership role within the wider provision.
Tapestry connects home and nursery through an online learning journal. Parents can see recorded learning and contribute their own photographs, videos and written updates, allowing experiences at home to become part of the conversation about their child.
Early recognition of SEND in the nursery was highly effective in January 2025. Across the school, parents are informed when additional support is needed; teachers discuss the support and children's progress with them. For children with an Education Health Care Plan, meetings bring parents into decisions about progress and future planning.
Attending this nursery does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through the normal admissions process and meet its deadline. Treat that application as a separate decision from booking nursery sessions.
Familiarity with phonics routines provides preparation for the next stage of learning. It is educational preparation, rather than an admissions entitlement.
Morning sessions run from 8:45am to 11:45am; afternoons run from 12:15pm to 3:15pm. Full days are also an option. An additional period from 2:45pm to 3:15pm extends the all-day booking to the school's finishing time and can be included in funding. The term-time calendar means families need to plan holiday childcare separately.
Nursery enquiries begin with an Expression of Interest application form, after which the team contacts the family. Visits can be arranged by appointment: email hello@indianqueensschool.org or telephone 01726 860540. Contact the school for current charges.
No. Nursery attendance does not guarantee a place, and families must apply separately for Reception through the normal admissions process.
Yes. The nursery includes two-year-olds and has a lead for that age group.
Morning sessions run from 8:45am to 11:45am, and afternoon sessions run from 12:15pm to 3:15pm. The nursery operates during term time.
The online learning journal Tapestry shares recorded learning with parents. Families can add photographs, videos and text from home.
Yes. Make an appointment by emailing hello@indianqueensschool.org or calling 01726 860540.
