Maria Montessori Nursery School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff provide a welcoming and caring learning environment. Children settle readily, make friends to play with and enjoy their learning. Their behaviour is excellent.

• Staff know children well and attend to their needs effectively. When identifying gaps in children's learning, they provide good support to help children catch up. Children make good progress in relation to their individual starting points.

They are well prepared for the next stages in their learning and development, including starting school. • Staff embrace opportunities to explore cultures with children and invite parents to share skills and events with the children. Children lea...rn about their own identity and other communities around them.

• Partnerships with parents are strong. For example, staff regularly inform parents about their children's academic progress and involve them in planning the next steps. • Managers seek the views and comments of parents and others.

They regularly review the overall quality of the provision and identify areas for further improvement. • Occasionally, some staff miss opportunities to further extend children's language and thinking to deepen their learning. • The monitoring of staff practice is not highly effective in improving the quality of teaching to an outstanding level.