Meadows Montessori

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff have established exceptionally strong partnerships with parents. They communicate very effectively with them and involve them well in their children's learning. Parents praise staff for their warmth and dedication.

They say their children love coming to nursery. Parents of older children, in particular, comment that staff 'set their children up for school'. • Skilful staff promote children's listening and speaking skills with confidence.

They engage children in stimulating conversations and encourage them to express their ideas. Children love hearing stories and enthusiastically join in with songs and rhymes. • Staff and children have excel...lent relationships.

They form warm and trusting bonds with each other. Children have high levels of confidence and demonstrate they feel safe and secure. • Managers and staff have a strong commitment to providing children with good-quality care and learning.

They have formed a strong team and work together well. Staff morale is good and this shines through in their obvious enthusiasm for their roles. Staff have a thorough understanding of their responsibilities.

• At times, staff do not make the most of opportunities to challenge the most-able children's capabilities and extend their learning still further. • Although children play outside daily, this tends to be at scheduled times. This means that children who learn best outdoors are not always able to choose to do so.

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