Elizabeth's Montessori Nursery Ltd

Elizabeth's Montessori Nursery Ltd Surbiton New Life Baptist Church, Balaclava Road, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 5PN

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 24 March 2017 28 January 2015

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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

 Children's behaviour is exemplary and they are extremely polite to the staff and each other. Staff are extremely dedicated to consistently promoting children's respect of each other's similarities and differences, their confidence and their awareness of diversity.  Staff have an excellent awareness of how young children learn. They use this knowledge to successfully challenge and inspire each child to develop new skills, enabling all children to make excellent progress in relation to their starting points.  Partnerships with parents, outside professionals and local schools are very strong. They make a significant contribution to the extremely focused support that children and their families receive, ensuring that children's needs are met exceedingly well.  Staff provide excellent opportunities for children to extend their learning in different environments. For example, they go to local parks and enjoy exciting outdoor activities.

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This provision is outstanding

 The manager leads the exceptionally hard-working staff team extremely well. Staff receive inspirational coaching and training and continue to develop their skills to the highest levels.  Managers constantly monitor and assess the effectiveness of the provision to ensure that each child receives high-quality support and achieves their full potential.

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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

 continue to develop further the already excellent monitoring processes to identify groups of children's progress even more precisely.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the indoor and outdoor play areas.  The inspector took the views of parents into consideration.  The inspector talked with staff, children and the manager at appropriate times throughout the inspection.  The inspector looked at children's assessment records and planning documentation. She checked evidence of suitability and qualifications of staff, the provider's self- evaluation form and improvement plans.  The inspector carried out a joint observation of an activity with the deputy manager.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. All staff receive high levels of training to ensure they maintain an excellent and up-to-date understanding of how to manage any child protection concerns. Rigorous recruitment and induction procedures ensure that staff are suitable for the role. Managers observe staff, set them challenging targets and hold them accountable for children's achievement. Managers and staff closely track the progress of each child, although they do not yet track groups of children as precisely. The managers inspire staff to continue their professional development. For example, they encourage staff to obtain further training and qualifications, and to share their experiences with colleagues. Self- evaluation is outstanding. Managers act effectively on the views of staff, parents, children and others to provide an excellent service.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Children enjoy an excellent and exciting range of activities. The environment is organised exceptionally well to provide superb learning opportunities, indoors and outdoors, that meet the needs and interests of individual children. Children are extremely well motivated and excited to learn. For example, many of the older children competently write their name and use their understanding of letter sounds to read words and short sentences. Younger children thoroughly enjoy sorting and matching items by colour, shape or size, and staff encourage them to count and describe what they are doing. Staff constantly praise children for their inventive ideas and contributions. Children are extremely proud of their achievements.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Relationships between staff and children are excellent, and staff build very strong partnerships with parents. Staff are excellent role models for children. All children are extremely happy, settled and secure. They behave exceptionally well and display remarkable self-control. Children are consistently kind, polite and considerate towards each other and make friends easily. They demonstrate an excellent knowledge of healthy eating habits. For instance, children explain that they must drink water or they will get dehydrated. Staff provide a wide range of superb opportunities to support children's physical development. Children have excellent first-hand opportunities to learn about the community in which they live, for example, through regular visitors to the nursery.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children are confident, highly motivated and eager to learn. They develop excellent speaking and listening skills. Older children order numerals, and add and subtract quantities of objects confidently. All children make excellent progress from their different starting points. They are exceptionally well-prepared for the next stages of their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY348270 Local authority Kingston upon Thames Inspection number 1085865 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 5 Total number of places 34 Number of children on roll 42 Name of registered person Elizabeth's Montessori Nursery Ltd

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reference number

Date of previous inspection 28 January 2015 Telephone number 02083991679

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Elizabeth's Montessori Nursery registered in 2007. The nursery is open from 8am to 6pm for 50 weeks of the year. The provider receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The nursery employs seven staff; of these, one has qualified teacher status, two have early years professional status and three hold appropriate qualifications from level 2 to level 6.

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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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