The Early Years team at The Mead provides an outstanding and innovative environment that has its foundation in child-initiated learning. The practice within our Early Years department has been recognised as being outstanding by Ofsted during three Outstanding Practice Visits (2007, 2011 and 2014) and during two HMI visits in 2013.
Ofsted made the videos (right) of our Foundation Stage Unit as part of a suite of films showing good practice in the Early Years. The first video focuses on Early Years practice within The Mead Community Primary School and the second is based on assessment in the Foundation Stage which features some of our practice.