Birchfield Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school · Ages 3–5 · widnes, Halton
Birchfield Nursery School is a nursery school in widnes, Halton for ages 3–5 (local authority nursery school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 December 2022.
Key facts
- Address
- Victoria Avenue, Victoria Avenue, widnes, WA8 7TH
- Type
- Local authority nursery school
- Phase
- Nursery
- Ages
- 3–5
- Sector
- See recorded establishment type
- Council
- Halton
- Pupils on roll
- 77 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 0% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 December 2022
Strengths
- “Children are happy, and benefit from the gentle, thoughtful support that staff give them at Birchfield Nursery School.”
- “They trust the staff to look after them.”
- “They know that teachers and teaching assistants are genuinely interested in what they wish to say.”
To improve
- “Nevertheless, in a few areas of learning, leaders have not thought enough about the important knowledge that children should remember.”
- “Nevertheless, staff do not make enough use of the school’s curriculum as a means by which to assess children’s learning.”
- “Instead, they over-use nationally published age bands of what a child may typically know.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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- Crime, sold prices, broadband and transport around the school
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Nearby nursery schools
Straight-line distance, in Halton.
- Partou Willowdene Day Nursery & Pre-School 0.3 mi Good
- Dunkys Day Nursery & Forest School Farnworth 0.3 mi Good
- Daisy Maisies 0.5 mi Good
- St John's Pre-School 0.5 mi Good
- Early Learners Nursery Ltd 0.6 mi Good
- Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Ditton Nursery School 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Aspiring Foundations Federated Nursery Schools - Warrington Road Nursery School 1.0 mi Not judged
- Wilmere Lane Nursery School 1.1 mi Outstanding