Bright Bambini Montessori (Eastfield)

Inspection of Bright Bambini Montessori (Eastfield) East Community Centre, East Community Complex, Padholme Road, Peterborough PE1 5EN

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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 Not applicable

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The provision is good

Children are happy and settle well. Staff take time to get to know children and their families well. They provide tailored settling-in arrangements to ensure children's individual needs are met. Staff understand that for children to be ready to learn, they need to feel safe and secure. When children new to the setting become unsettled, they adapt their approach well to help children to navigate the transition at their own pace. Children form good bonds with staff and show through their body language that they feel safe and secure. They listen to staff, follow instructions and behave well. Staff help children learn to share and take turns as they play.

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The provision is good

Although the nursery has only recently opened, children are showing good progress in the short time that they have been attending. The experienced manager has established a curriculum that is clearly sequenced to help children build on what they know and can do. The curriculum, and the steps towards achieving the curriculum aims, are shared with staff effectively. Children show increased control and self-confidence in large physical movements, such as when they climb the steps or climbing wall to access the slide in the garden. They build muscle control as they manipulate play dough and use sticks to make marks in the sand.

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n The well-qualified manager uses her professional knowledge to establish an effective curriculum and ensures her staff understand the aims and ethos of the nursery. She trains staff well to understand how to support children's typical development and gain the skills they need to support their future education and life. n Staff know children very well. They are enthusiastic and reflective practitioners who strive to improve and provide children with stimulating learning experiences. Staff assess children's progress and plan effectively to support their emerging next steps. They share this information with parents regularly and provide ideas of how parents can support children's ongoing learning at home. n Staff say that they are supported well by the manager to fulfil their roles. They add that they receive appropriate training and coaching that helps them to improve and develop their practice. Staff are supported to gain professional early

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years qualifications and that they feel valued by the manager. Staff are enthusiastic to implement ideas from training events that they attend, such as developing further ways to help children build strong foundations to support literacy at school. n Parents are positive about the nursery. They say that they are well informed about their child's day and what they need to learn next. Parents state that their children enjoy coming to the nursery. They notice the progress their child makes

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25 April 2024 such as learning to share and take turns and putting on their coats independently. n A large number of children attending the nursery speak English as an additional language. Staff who speak children's home languages ably support their understanding and help them to learn English. Children listen to stories that staff read with increasing understanding and start to join in with familiar songs and rhymes. Staff know that children benefit from repetition in learning and provide lots of opportunities to practise. n Children build a strong 'can do' attitude. They receive lots of praise from staff to keep trying when they learn new skills. Children learn how to use safety knives to cut fruit and vegetables. They practise pouring drinks from jugs daily. As well as building their confidence to do things for themselves, these skills develop hand-to-eye coordination, ready for reading and writing when they move to

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school. n Staff work well in partnership with other professionals. They develop links with the Literacy Trust and the local library bus to help to promote children's love of books, stories and rhymes. n Sometimes, staff become absorbed in small group activities and do not notice when other children are less engaged and tend to wander. This reduces opportunities for some children to benefit from good-quality interactions with staff that help them develop English language skills.

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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 focus continuous professional development opportunities for staff so that children are engaged in meaningful and consistently high-quality interactions that help them build good English language skills.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2778759 Local authority Peterborough Inspection number 10342837 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 32 Number of children on roll 9 Name of registered person Bbmc Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 07400167586 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Bright Bambini Montessori (Eastfield) registered in 2024. The nursery operates every week day all year round except for one week at Christmas. Sessions are from 9am until 6pm. The nursery provides care for children aged up to 10 years during school holidays. It employs three staff, of whom two hold relevant early years qualifications at level 3 and above. The nursery provides funded early education for two, three- and four-year-old children. The nursery follows the Montessori approach.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the provider received since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about their curriculum and what they want their children to learn. n Staff spoke to the inspector during the inspection and the inspector took account of their views. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. n The manager showed the inspector the premises and discussed how they ensure it is safe and suitable. n The inspector carried out joint observations of group activities with the manager. n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the

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suitability of staff working in the nursery.

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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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