I have had two children in Asquith on Norroy Road. The nursery went from good to bad during "my years" there. They went from caring, loving and enthusiastic to "i couldnt care less" within a year. Frequent turnover in staff, moving staff between rooms, constantly reorganizing, etc.
Asquith then adopted this philosophy that the child shall decide if he wants to tidy up, come to eat, etc. You cant decide that the child shall come sit down and eat, and you shall not serve up the child, the child shall do that himself. So, many a time my son did not have lunch, because nobody told him to stop playing and come and sit down, so he didnt. He was 2/3 fgs! I realized something was wrong one day when I called him to come have dinner, and he said "No, I dont have to come if I dont want to". Equally tidy up toys, or coming to bed.... "mum, nursery says I dont have to if I am busy doing something"
My son had for this reason enormous problems when he started school. He thought he could CHOOSE whether to come and sit on the carpet and listen, etc, or that he could choose whether he wanted to go to the library and get a book, etc. Because this is what he had learnt at Asquith.
I moved my youngest when he started crying at the mere sight of Norroy road. The staff in the toddler room (1 year plus) were horrid. They never smiled at him, never greeted him in the morning, never picked him up. Always when I came to get him, there were children crying, with big blobs of snot hanging down their faces, the staff were standing bored in the corner. I brought it up with the nursery on many occasions, and they listenend, and said "right, we have to do something about that", but they never did.
Oh, and a member of staff hit my son on the head with a wooden train garage to show him that "hitting is bad". I got Ofsted involved on that one. My son had a bump on his head. Another member of staff had thrown his toy car out on the train tracks to show him that you dont throw toys....
They are unreal!
Hopefully they are better now. But when my kids were there, they must have been doing a social experiement on kids "how to raise thugs", I'd say.