Jack in the Box Montessori School Limited

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Children are happy, settled and content. They develop warm and trusting relationships with staff and thoroughly enjoy their time in this highly stimulating and calm learning environment.

• Staff have a good understanding of how children learn and develop. They accurately observe and assess children's progress and plan interesting activities that follow children's interests. Children make good progress in relation to their starting points.

• There are strong arrangements in place to involve parents in all aspects of their children's learning. Staff use daily discussions and online systems to exchange information about children's achievements. Pare...nts comment extremely positively on the care and teaching their children receive.

• Children have very good opportunities to learn about how to keep themselves safe and about their local community. For instance, they learn about road safety and the danger of fire when professionals from the local community visit the nursery. • The manager effectively reflects on the provision to continue to make improvements.

The views of parents, staff and children are gathered to enhance children's learning experiences. • At times, some staff miss opportunities that arise to precisely focus on introducing new vocabulary, to extend children's language skills even further. • Supervision and performance management is not sharply focused to help the good-quality teaching improve to the highest level.