Burnham Montessori School

Burnham Montessori School Dropmore Parish Hall, Littleworth Road, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, SL1 8PF

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 3 May 2018 7 July 2015

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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 Outstanding 1

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This provision is good

 Children's needs are quickly identified and particularly well met through very effective partnership working between staff, parents and other professionals.  The owner has a thorough understanding of her responsibilities in meeting the legal requirements. She and the manager ensure that staff use well-researched, up-to-date policies and procedures to promote children's health, safety and well-being.  The quality of teaching varies from good to excellent, depending upon each member of staff's experience. Parents recognise that their children are in very capable hands and appreciate the tips and guidance staff share with them through a variety of means.  Children behave extremely well. They show exceptionally mature and positive attitudes towards others. For example, children share favourite toys without being asked, saying to their friends, 'It's your turn now, you're in charge'.  Children are enthusiastic learners. They are keen to discover and demonstrate high

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This provision is good

levels of involvement in their play. Children have excellent independence skills for their age and are very well prepared for their move on to school.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Staff do not provide a wide range of materials outdoors for children to use to make meaningful marks and write for a purpose, to develop their literacy skills fully.

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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

 offer more opportunities for children to practise mark making and writing for a purpose, particularly for those children who enjoy learning outdoors.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed, listened to and talked with children as they played indoors and during outdoor play.  The inspector talked with parents and listened to their views about the setting and their children's progress.  The inspector reviewed records and procedures relating to safeguarding and risk assessment, and discussed a range of other procedures relating to children's welfare with the owner.  The inspector observed care routines and teaching with the manager and discussed how staff worked with other professionals to meet children's individual needs.  The inspector looked at children's records, discussed staff's planning and evaluation of activities, and how they exchange information with parents.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Professional, reflective and skilled leadership from the owner and manager continues to raise standards across the setting to increasingly high levels. Self-evaluation is accurate, includes all those involved with the setting and is used astutely to raise outcomes for all children. For example, the manager has streamlined assessments and monitoring of children's progress. This results in a clear way of sharing information with parents and agreeing the next steps in children's learning. Safeguarding is effective. The manager ensures that all her staff know how to recognise and respond appropriately to a wide range of potential child protection issues.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Senior staff are highly qualified and they continue to raise the quality of staff's practice through, for example, training, coaching and research. Children benefit enormously from staff's detailed understanding of how they learn and ways to add just the right amount of additional challenge. Staff supervise children carefully, while giving them time to follow their own interests, persist with tasks and master new skills. For example, children use a range of technology to investigate spring planting and the role of insects inside, before planting their vegetables with staff outside. Children thoroughly enjoy working out how to use binoculars to examine the differences between cabbage and cosmos seedlings and the tiny insects that land on them. They competently handle seeds and trowels.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff inspire children's role play with items such as dressing-up clothes and interesting props. Children practise dressing themselves independently. They pull on firefighters' trousers and fasten up jackets. Children learn how to call the emergency services and make links between toy fire extinguishers and the real ones they know to respect inside the setting. Staff allow children to take well-supervised risks, such as constructing and using obstacle courses. Older children assess the safety of crawling across a block that pivots on the top of others. They challenge themselves, but have a deep understanding about protecting any younger children from taking such a risk. Staff are swift to model ways to include everyone in games and older children quickly adapt to meet the needs of all their friends.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are emotionally and academically well prepared for the next stage in their learning, including school. Children with delayed speech skills catch up with their age group in time for starting school. Other children become socially skilled and self-confident in their abilities as their special educational needs and/or disabilities are clearly identified and defined. Children learn to be courteous to each other and to new people they meet. They become self-assured and skilled in busying themselves with explorations and investigations. Children use a wide range of tools and technology precisely.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY337023 Local authority Buckinghamshire Inspection number 1129541 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 - 4 Total number of places 24 Number of children on roll 24 Name of registered person Soniadip Kaur Grewal

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Date of previous inspection 7 July 2015 Telephone number 01753 647557

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Burnham Montessori School registered in 2006. It is open from 8.45am until 3.45pm from Monday to Friday, during term time only. The setting is in receipt of funding for the provision of free early education to children aged two, three and four years. Of the five members of staff, three hold relevant childcare qualifications at level 4 and the owner holds early years professional status.

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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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