The Village Montessori

The Village Montessori Kingswood Halls, Kingswood Place, London, SE13 5BU

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 19 April 2016 18 March 2011

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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

 The children behave very well and flourish in the extremely welcoming and nurturing environment. They develop exceptionally strong relationships with staff and thoroughly enjoy their warm interactions. Children are very happy, secure and exceedingly confident. This helps them to rapidly acquire the skills they need for school.  The quality of teaching is of a consistently very high standard. Staff make excellent use of the accurate assessments they obtain from observations to plan experiences which help to promote children's excellent progress and achievement. Staff monitor children's development meticulously and identify precisely what they need to do next to help children continue to make rapid progress.  Staff fire children's enthusiasm for learning. They listen carefully to children and respond skilfully to their ideas. They provide exactly the right level of challenge to help maintain children's interest and engagement and support their thinking skills further.

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This provision is outstanding

 The manager is a highly ambitious and enthusiastic leader. She monitors staff rigorously to ensure they meet her very high expectations. Staff work as an exceptional team to provide rich experiences that motivate children to learn.  Partnerships with parents are outstanding and help to enhance all aspects of children's care and well-being. Parents are extremely involved in their children's learning and speak very highly of the setting.

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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

 develop further the already very good systems for ongoing communication with other early years settings that children attend to provide even more continuity in their learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed children taking part in indoor and outdoor activities.  The inspector completed a joint observation with the manager, and talked to parents, staff and children throughout the inspection.  The inspector looked at a sample of planning and assessment records.  The inspector checked evidence of staff suitability and qualifications, and relevant policies and procedures.  The inspector discussed the use of self-evaluation and staff's understanding of safeguarding.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. All staff have an excellent understanding of their responsibility to protect children in their care. They are extremely clear about the procedures to follow if they have concerns about the safety of a child. They update their safeguarding knowledge regularly. This allows staff to provide the safest possible environment for children. The manager is extremely knowledgeable. She evaluates staff teaching, children's progress and the activities provided exceptionally well, to ensure staff deliver a first-class service. Staff are highly committed to continuously improving the provision and regularly develop their skills to help further improve outcomes for children. Staff are exceptionally proactive in obtaining feedback from parents on their practice. This helps them in developing their in-depth self-evaluation.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Staff are highly skilled at devising varied and imaginative experiences that enthuse, engage and motivate children to learn. They are kind and nurturing, and know exactly how to develop children's learning through exciting play and practical experiences. Children have great fun outside, pouring water from jugs and pretending to be a range of animals as they engage in role play. Their language skills are exceptionally well extended when, for example, staff introduce new vocabulary to them. Staff keep parents exceptionally well informed about their children's progress. This helps parents to support their children's learning further at home. However, there is scope for extending how staff share information with other early years settings that children attend.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff place an extremely high emphasis on children's welfare and safety. Children have limitless support, perfectly matched to their needs, to help them to explore their surroundings confidently and learn to manage risks. For example, staff involve them in carrying out risk assessments of the setting. Staff foster children's self-care skills and independence exceptionally well from the start. Everyone working with the children reinforces positive behaviour at all times, and uses praise to celebrate children's achievements. Children are highly cooperative and work extremely well together.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children make rapid progress based on their individual starting points. They gain excellent listening, speaking and literacy skills, which helps to prepare them very well for their future learning. Children develop excellent mathematical skills. For example, they learn to count in groups of ten and to order items in terms of their length. Children are confident, persevere with challenges and are extremely eager to learn. They are very polite and have an excellent understanding of the importance of sharing and turn taking.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY348344 Local authority Lewisham Inspection number 827606 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 4 Total number of places 48 Number of children on roll 48 Name of provider The Village Montessori Limited Date of previous inspection 18 March 2011 Telephone number 02083 186 720

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Setting details

The Village Montessori Nursery registered in 1981 and re-registered under its present owner in 2007. It is located in Kingswood Place, London. The nursery runs two sessions each weekday from 9am to 12.15pm and 1pm to 4.15pm during term time. The setting receives nursery education funding for children aged three and four years. There are five members of staff who work with the children at the setting, all of whom hold relevant early years qualifications. One member of staff has Qualified Teacher Status, and four staff hold qualifications at level 4. The nursery follows the Montessori method of education.

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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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