A Blackpool nursery has received a new Ofted rating.

Embrace Lodge Kindergarten has been rated as ‘Expected Standard’ in a new OFSTED report.

The report described staff at the nursery, on Whitegate Drive, as ‘positive role models’ and that the children appeared ‘settled and secure’.

‘Expected standard’, according to OFSTED, means: “the setting is fulfilling the expected standard of education and/or care. This means they are following the standard set out in statutory and non‑statutory legislation and the professional standards expected of them.”

The report goes on: “Staff place children's personal, social and emotional development at the centre of their practice. Children have built warm attachments with staff and enjoy the care and nurture that staff provide. Children are supported to identify how they are feeling and how their actions can make someone else feel.”

The inspector recommended that leaders should ‘strengthen the curriculum in the outdoor area so that children who prefer to learn outdoors can further develop their skills and knowledge’.

Read the full report here.