Maple Montessori Nursery

Inspection of Maple Montessori Nursery 3a Neville Gill Close, Wandsworth SW18 4BS

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Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Requires improvement

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The provision is good

Staff create a happy, welcoming and nurturing learning environment. They have high expectations for children's learning and behaviour and plan an ambitious curriculum and wide range of stimulating activities that children enthusiastically enjoy. Children show high levels of emotional well-being and develop positive attitudes towards learning. Staff are positive role models. They actively join in with children's play and learning and give lots of encouragement. Staff effectively promote children's good behaviour. For instance, they give them clear messages about kindness and sharing and help them to wait for their turn. This helps children to behave well.

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The provision is good

Staff have clear intentions for children's learning and create a learning environment that successfully supports children's independence and natural desire to learn. Younger children have good fun exploring resources connected to 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' story. They eagerly discuss different foods, days of the week and how caterpillars transform into butterflies. Children show good interest in the story. Older children show high engagement when listening to the story 'Handa's Surprise'. Many children demonstrate strong prior knowledge and discuss how the story is set in Africa. Staff effectively introduce new words, such as 'savannah' and 'climate'. This challenges older children's knowledge and understanding of the world extremely well. Children show that they feel happy and safe. It is evident that they have good bonds with the friendly staff and enjoy their time at the nursery.

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need to do better?

n Staff have worked hard to address the action and recommendations raised at their previous inspection. Staff have engaged in additional behaviour management training to help to strengthen their skills and knowledge. Staff are reflective and committed to continuing to enhance different aspects of the environment and their practice. n Staff provide children with a rich and exciting curriculum that offers a good balance of child-led and adult-led activities. Staff know individual children extremely well and carefully plan activities based on children's interests and what they need to learn next. Staff use meaningful interactions well, overall, to support children to move forward in their learning. n Staff effectively support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who speak English as an additional language. For instance, staff work closely with other early years professionals, such as speech and

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need to do better?

language therapists, to provide children with tailored support. This helps children to receive good levels of consistency and supports their future learning. n Staff place strong emphasis on supporting children to develop a positive view of

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need to do better?

23 February 2024 themselves. Children are highly inquisitive and behave very well. They are eager to join in and show respect for their environment and each other. n Staff effectively help children to lead active and healthy lifestyles. For example, children benefit from daily walks or visits to the local park. Furthermore, they participate in a weekly dance class. This helps to develop their physical skills and improves their overall health and well-being. n Staff foster children's curiosity well. Staff working with older children are highly skilled at asking children effective questions and encouraging children to develop their own thinking skills. Staff working with younger children offer good commentary as they play. However, on occasion, they do not maximise all opportunities that arise to extend younger children's language skills and knowledge to the very highest level. n Staff naturally build children's self-esteem as they play. This is apparent when

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need to do better?

staff play a range of games with children to get them talking and to boost their confidence. Staff have identified the importance of continuing to encourage quieter children to contribute their ideas to the group. They are developing different strategies to support all children's active participation. n Staff form positive relationships with parents. Parents comment that they feel well involved in their children's learning and receive daily updates about their day. They add that they also receive more detailed information about their children's new achievements and development during termly meetings. Parents highly value how kind and caring staff are and express that their children are making very good progress.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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should:

n continue to strengthen staff working with younger children to extend their language development and learning to the very highest level.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY459457 Local authority Wandsworth Inspection number 10284313 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Day care type Sessional day care

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inspection

Total number of places 35 Number of children on roll 14 Name of registered person Lilies Baby & Tots Children Centre Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 07951214993 Date of previous inspection 8 March 2023

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Information about this early years setting

The nursery registered in 2013 but was taken over by the current owners in 2018 and recently changed its name to Maple Montessori Nursery. The nursery is open Monday to Friday, term time only, from 8.30am to 3pm. The nursery receives funding for the provision of free early education to children aged two, three and four years. There are three staff, including the provider and manager, all of whom hold a relevant childcare qualification at level 5 or 6.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector discussed any continued impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The inspector carried out a range of observations to assess the quality of children's experiences at the nursery. n The inspector completed a learning walk with a member of the leadership team and discussed the nursery's curriculum aims and ethos. n The inspector spoke to parents and children during the inspection to gain their views. n A range of documentation was viewed, including staff members' qualifications and training certificates.

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We carried out this inspection 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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