Blue Butterfly Montessori

Blue Butterfly Montessori 5 Barrow Point Avenue, Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 3HQ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 25 February 2016 5 March 2015

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Previous inspection: Requires Improvement

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 Highly qualified staff use their knowledge, skills and experience extremely well to support children's learning and development. Leaders inspire staff to strive to do their very best for children. Excellent use is made of supervisions and staff meetings to recognise staff's efforts and provide opportunities to develop their skills even further.  Children enjoy an exceptionally well-organised variety of age-appropriate and stimulating resources and available learning experiences. Their ideas are highly valued and strongly influenced in daily planning. Children make the best possible progress.  Children's health and safety is of paramount importance to the nursery. Staff maintain a very safe and secure environment, and support children closely in learning how to keep themselves safe and to develop healthy lifestyles.  The leaders and staff have established excellent partnerships working with parents and

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This provision is outstanding

a wide range of other professionals. Children receive swift and timely support where needed, both at home and at the nursery, to help them catch up and progress quickly.  The management team and staff continually reflect on their practice to ensure they offer high-quality care and exceptional learning experiences. They have worked extremely hard to make exceptional improvements since the last inspection. Plans for future developments are very well focused on improving outcomes for children and reflect the views of staff, parents and children.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 enhance even further opportunities for children to practice real-life skills and use real objects in all rooms and environments.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children's activities and their daily routines in all the rooms as well as outside.  The inspector spoke with the manager, children, parents and staff throughout the inspection.  The inspector sampled a range of documents available, including those relating to the safety checks and safeguarding.  The inspector checked that the suitability of the manager and staff for working with the children had been properly verified.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with the manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The provider has robust recruitment policies and procedures in place to ensure the suitability of all adults for working with children. Staff have a clear knowledge of what actions to take if they have any concerns about a child. The manager and staff have made many improvements since the last inspection. For example, they have continuously attended training to help them expand children's experiences in various areas of learning. Meticulous assessments of children's progress have helped the manager to monitor the progress of different groups of children. Parents' input is valued at all levels to ensure continuity of care. For example, staff use parents' input in their planning, and take notice of parents' proposals for further developments. Parents also take part in an outstanding range of events organised by the nursery.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Teaching is excellent. Staff interact with great skill to adapt challenges that suit each individual child. They use excellent questioning techniques to help children think, as seen in the intelligent answers given by older children after reading a story. All children develop excellent communication and language skills. Staff provide an enriching base for this from when they are babies. For example, babies learn new words and their meanings through play experiences, such as 'fast' and 'slow' when steering and pouring flakes during messy play. Children have excellent opportunities to practice real-life skills. For example, older children cut vegetables. This is not fully embedded in all the rooms.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff know their children exceptionally well. During home visits they gather detailed information from parents about what children already know and can do across all areas of their development. Children are happy and settled. Staff meet all children's personal needs extremely well. For example, parents greatly appreciate the exceptional amount of safety measures for children with severe allergies. Children also develop excellent behaviour and social skills. They actively gain an understanding of people, families and communities through various activities and discussions. For example, when drawing half of their face on a large printed-out picture of their face, children are able to discuss the emotions on their pictures, saying what they like most in their pictures and themselves.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are confident and highly motivated to learn. They demonstrate vibrant social skills, good manners, and high levels of independence and self-confidence. For example, even younger children help tidy up after activities and babies feed themselves. Older children are prepared very well for their future move to school. For example, they are able to have thoughtful conversations, concentrate on activities and write their names.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY438813 Local authority Harrow Inspection number 1009034 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 75 Number of children on roll 81 Name of provider Blue Butterfly Limited Date of previous inspection 5 March 2015 Telephone number 02084299446

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Setting details

Blue Butterfly Montessori registered in 2011. The nursery is privately owned and operates in Pinner, in the London Borough of Harrow. It is open each weekday from 8am to 6pm all year round, except for bank holidays. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education for children aged three and four years. It employs 31 staff; of whom, 23 work permanently with children. 20 members of staff hold relevant childcare qualifications at level 3 and above, one holds Qualified Teacher Status and four hold Early Years Professional Status.

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Setting details

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children’s learning, development and care, known as the Early Years Foundation Stage.

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Setting details

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