Burnwood Nursery School has cut dramatically its number of children on the special needs register. Head teacher Juliet Levingstone explains how, in the second of a series on Stoke-on-Trent's nursery schools.

Burnwood Nursery School is located in Chell Heath, Stoke-on-Trent. Multiple deprivation scores put us in the top 10 to 20 per cent band. But people in the area have a strong identity and many want to better themselves.

We are not a special needs school, but are inclusive and believe strongly in early intervention to support children in the formative years. Targeted interventions are a real strength of the school.

Our committed staff know the community well and are good at identifying and analysing children's strengths and areas for further development, on entry to, and exit from, nursery school. The special needs we deal with range from general speech and language articulation to cases that involve behavioural problems and autism.

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