In the past 18 months, Grasmere Nursery School has undergone a transformation. In September 2013, Ofsted rated the Luton nursery school as "requires improvement" but this summer's inspection saw it receive an "outstanding" judgment.
Head teacher Judy Luxford says the school's troubles in 2013 were due to a period of changing leadership, but it was embracing a principle of shared leadership that really powered Grasmere's turnaround.
"The staff members are exactly the same staff members as when I arrived in January 2014," says the former primary head. "They were and are excellent practitioners, but the systems weren't really in place to ensure the detail. For example, staff would instinctively see what a child needed to progress but there weren't the specific scrutiny meetings we now have where we look at not just how children are achieving but how they have progressed."
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