Buckingham Montessori School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Staff maintain ongoing assessments of children's skills and effectively identify their next steps in learning. They work with the manager to track children's progress and promptly narrow gaps in their development.

Children make a good progress. • Across the nursery, staff plan activities to promote children's needs. All children have a good balance of adult-led and child-led activities.

They access a range of play opportunities and develop skills across all areas of learning. • Staff know children's personal needs and form secure attachments with them. Children are visibly happy and very eager to play and explore.

• Staff engage children... in learning about cultures, festivals and traditions around the world. They provide plenty of opportunities for children to learn about their local community and where they and their family come from. • Staff complete daily risk assessments of the premises to ensure that play areas, equipment and resources are suitable for children.

They continuously bring new strategies to teach children about personal safety and boundaries. • Staff have not yet established successful strategies to work with parents. They do not obtain ongoing information from them about children's skills and interests at home, to continuously extend the support they have at nursery.