Gracelands Nursery School, Birmingham
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoOverall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Gracelands provides a warm, stimulating environment where children flourish socially and develop confidence in their language skills. Staff build positive, caring relationships with children and their families, including helpful home visits before children start school. The school actively monitors attendance and engages closely with families to support children's wellbeing.
Key Strengths
- Children's behaviour is good and they enjoy school
- Teaching engages children's interest and helps them become more confident in language use
- Positive and caring relationships between staff and children
- Well-supervised playtimes with group activities
- Good attendance monitoring with home visits to check on absent children
Areas for Improvement
- Governing body has not done its job well enough in safeguarding oversight and staff recruitment
- Governors lack awareness of 'Prevent' programme guidelines on extremism
- Governing body has not evaluated whether new behaviour policy is working
- High turnover of governors with many inexperienced members
- Staff and governors require immediate training on preventing radicalisation
Safeguarding
Safeguarding arrangements meet requirements, but the school was previously weak on staff recruitment checks and is now addressing gaps in extremism awareness through updated policies.
Gracelands Nursery School is a small nursery serving 52 children, mostly from South Asian backgrounds who speak English as an additional language. The school provides a stimulating environment where children's behaviour is good, but leadership and management requires improvement.
At a Glance
24.2%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Class Sizes
0.0
Avg class size
0
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Admissions Demand - Birmingham
Places available
15,089
Applications
14,943
Got 1st preference
73.6%
Got preferred school
96.8%
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