Bright Learners Montessori Nursery

Bright Learners Montessori Nursery Wesley Hall, 9 Stapylton Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN5 4JJ

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 7 February 2018 14 February 2013

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 The provider is skilled at identifying children who may need additional support. She implements timely strategies to help them catch up and works effectively with other professionals if needed. This particularly supports children who have special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities. The provider and staff consistently reflect on their practice and improve future outcomes for children.  Staff work effectively with parents to obtain detailed information about what their children know and can do when they first join the setting. Staff use this information to carefully plan what children need to learn next. All children make good progress from their different starting points.  Staff are warm and caring towards children. They understand how to support children's emotional well-being. Children are confident in their relationships with staff and turn to them for comfort and support if needed.  Staff support children's physical development well. For example, children laugh

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This provision is good

delightedly as they jump, climb, scoot and slide.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Some staff do not consistently grasp all available opportunities that arise during activities to challenge and extend children's learning as fully as possible.  Occasionally, some staff do not consistently support children as fully as possible to understand the impact of their behaviour on others.

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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

 support staff to more consistently identify and build on opportunities to extend children's learning as fully as possible during activities  strengthen staff's understanding of how they can support children in learning how to manage their behaviour more effectively.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed different activities, including outdoor learning, and assessed the impact on children's learning.  The inspector undertook a joint observation with the provider.  The inspector held a meeting with the provider.  The inspector looked at a selection of policies, children's records and documents relating to the suitability of staff. She discussed self-evaluation with the provider.  The inspector talked to staff, children and parents to gather their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Safeguarding is effective. The provider ensures that staff are confident in their understanding of the signs and symptoms which may give cause for concern about a child's welfare. Staff have completed training updates about how to identify any children who may be at risk of being exposed to extreme ideas or behaviours. The provider supports staff's professional development well, for example, through regular training and supervision. Staff use the knowledge they gain from their training to improve learning experiences for children. For example, they reorganised the layout of the nursery to make it even more accessible and enticing to children. Staff effectively support children to become independent learners.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff provide parents with good amounts of information about their children's care, learning and development. Parents are supported to extend their children's learning at home and are involved in providing continuity in their children's learning. Staff effectively support children to have equal opportunities to explore, experiment and think about who they are and what they like to do. For example, staff provide resources and activities which challenge stereotypes about children's play. Girls delightedly build towers with construction bricks and boys enjoy using the dressing-up clothes to support their imaginative play. Staff support children's language development well. For example, they provide children with time to think and express their ideas in their own words.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children benefit from a variety of opportunities to learn about their similarities and differences. For instance, they think about each other's families and special people, learn about different festivals and go out into their local community. Staff have enhanced children's personal care routines, for instance, recording nappy changing times in more detail. They teach children about a healthy lifestyle and how to keep themselves safe and well. Children are self-motivated, secure and settled.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are engaged and confident learners. They excitedly create their own activities and direct their own learning. For example, they use themselves to measure how high they have built their brick towers. They excitedly talk to each other and compare what they have discovered. Children use their emerging mathematical learning to count the number of caterpillars they have stamped on their pictures. They build on their language skills and share their interests and thoughts. Children become engrossed in their activities and concentrate for extended periods of time. They successfully learn the skills they need to support the next stage in their learning, including school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY388169 Local authority Barnet Inspection number 1062249 Type of provision Sessional provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 1 - 5 Total number of places 45 Number of children on roll 69 Name of registered person Hatice Djelal

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Date of previous inspection 14 February 2013 Telephone number 0208 447 1848

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Bright Learners Montessori Nursery registered in 2009. The nursery is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm, for 38 weeks per year. There are six members of staff, all of whom hold relevant early years qualifications from level 2 to level 4. The nursery follows both a Montessori curriculum and the early years foundation stage. The nursery is in receipt of funding for the provision of free education for children aged three and four years.

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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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