The report, Developing and Extending Nursery School Services, was drawn up for the DfEE last spring by a team of six nursery headteachers led by Sian Rees Jones from Bognor Regis Nursery School in West Sussex. It was presented to last week's London conference on the future of maintained nursery schools, organised by Early Education.
The report explores Ofsted data which reveals that 79 per cent of nursery schools were judged to offer good, very good, or excellent value for money, compared with 49 per cent of primary schools. The evidence suggests that nursery schools performed better than both nursery classes in primary schools and reception classes, although in some cases direct comparisons were difficult due to small sample sizes. Children with special educational needs were also found to progress better in nursery schools.
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