Ladybird Montessori Nursery

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About Ladybird Montessori Nursery


Name Ladybird Montessori Nursery
Inspections
Ofsted Inspections
Address 321 Birmingham Road, Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1EH
Phase Childcare on Non-Domestic Premises, Full day care
Gender Mixed
Local Authority Birmingham
Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision is good

Staff provide good support and encouragement to all children, including those who are new or re-settling after a long absence. They are attentive to their individual care routines and preferences and build a close bond to help them feel safe.

Children show sustained levels of engagement as they play and enjoy learning. For example, all children, including babies, fully engage during singing sessions and delight in using the visual aids as they sing familiar songs. Pre-school children are often highly motivated and eager to learn.

They listen intently during group time as they identify the weather, month and day of the ...week. Staff in pre-school skilfully incorporate mathematical language, new concepts and words as children use pretend house bricks and shaving foam to build their structures. Girls, in particular, have a strong understanding of counting, grouping objects and recognising number, and some excel in their writing skills.

Boys make good progress in these areas but their achievement is not as high as the girls as they are not always as inspired by the activities on offer. Staff caring for the toddlers prioritise increasing children's language. However, on occasions staff introduce too many new words and children lose focus.

Staff offer good targeted interventions for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They prioritise those who speak English as an additional language to help them catch up quickly and include them fully during activities.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

Since registration, the provider has appointed a new and experienced manager.

An acting deputy covered in the absence of the deputy during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The team worked well together to maintain the good practice across the nursery. The management team, along with the joint owners of the nursery, leads an enthusiastic team of staff, who speak highly of the support and supervision they receive.

The leadership team provides a well-planned educational programme across all areas of learning. The team skilfully combines the ethos of the Montessori approach, alongside children's interests, to help provide interesting and challenging activities. This contributes to ensuring children make good progress across the curriculum.

Partnership with parents is good. The manager has worked hard to ensure parents are able to access the nursery foyer one at a time. This system is used effectively to help share information about children's care and progress.

Parents say that they highly value the electronic assessment tool used to keep them up to date about their children's learning. They report that they use this information to help support children's learning at home and that their children's confidence, social skills and language have improved.The management team does not consistently act on information it has collated about children's learning.

For example, managers have not acted swiftly enough to help enhance the curriculum and raise the attainment of boys when they identified that boys are not making as much progress as the girls in some areas.Overall, staff support children to make good progress in their communication and language skills. However, staff in the toddler room sometimes introduce too many words at the same time without giving children the time to process their meaning.

The promotion of equality and diversity is at the centre of the staff's work. They make good use of children's personal experiences, books and artefacts to help children learn about various cultures and differences within the group. Children learn to use sign language and learn about the other languages spoken by children at the nursery.

Good attention is given to promoting children's health, and they benefit from healthy and nutritious meals and snacks. Children identify and cut fresh fruits and vegetables and learn about their benefits. Staff are creative in their approach and make learning enjoyable as they teach children about good oral health and about the importance of exercise.

Staff help children to follow the codes of behaviour in place to keep them safe and to respect each other. Children confidently follow the daily routines and enjoy taking controlled risks. For example, toddlers are supported well to complete the obstacle course outdoors.

Children learn to be kind to others and to show concern for their environment as they recycle card and plastic.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.There are good systems in place to identify children who may need early help or who are at risk of neglect.

The manager keeps accurate records, makes timely referrals where necessary, and works with other agencies to keep children safe. Staff have a good understanding of child protection and wider safeguarding issues to help promote children's welfare. Their knowledge of the procedures to follow if they have a concern about a child is secure.

There are effective recruitment and induction procedures to ensure staff are suitable to care for children. Detailed risk assessments are in place so that children are kept safe and can play freely.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: support staff in the toddler room to focus even more on how to enhance children's vocabulary skills nact swiftly on information where gaps are identified in children's learning; with particular regard to raising the achievement of boys.


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