Nightingale 1 Montessori Ofsted Reports
Inspection: 02/03/2026
The Nursery was graded ‘Strong standard in all areas’
This grade means that leaders are working above the standard expected of them.
The report shows all the different areas they looked into
-Achievement: Children make secure and consistent progress including those with special educational needs and those who speak English as an additional language
-Behaviour, attitudes, and establishing routines: Children demonstrate positive behaviour and show respect and kindness towards one another.
—Children’s welfare and wellbeing: Children form secure relationships with familiar adults and approach them confidently for reassurance and support.
-Curriculum and teaching: leaders provide a broad and ambitious curriculum that promotes curiosity, independence and sustained engagement.
-Inclusion: Leaders promote inclusion effectively and ensure that children’s needs are identified early, including those with special educational needs and disabilities.
-Leadership and governance: Leaders provide clear direction and maintain high expectations for care, learning and safeguarding.
Inspection: 05/03/2020
The nursery was graded ‘Good with Outstanding elements’.
The report is full of positive feedback on the nursery:
The children are extremely independent and are confident when managing their own tasks, such as tidying up.
They are supported to develop feelings of empathy and undersanding of their emotional intelligence.
They demonstrate this through kindness as they support each other during tasks.
Staff have extremely high expectations of children's behaviour.
Children listen well and follow clear instructions from staff.
The children are extremely respectful of each other and are keen to support those who are new to the setting.
The only recomendation is to 'review the organisation of transiton times within the daily routine to fully promote children's learning’.
As the inspection was conducted on World Book Day the transtion to the garden was extended as many children had to be changed before going outside and going home (it was a cold and rainy day). The nursery had already introduced strengthened handwashing procedures following government guidelines to stop the spreading of Covid-19 but this also resulted in the preparation for new activites to be slightly delayed. The nursery challenged the grading and submitted a complaint about the lack of flexibility and oversight of the unusual circumstances surrounding Covid 19.
View the full 2020 report here
Inspection: 11/09/2014
The nursery was graded Outstanding in all areas.
The staff meet children's needs exceptionally well through rigorous assessment and targeted next steps for learning.
Children make excellent progress because various areas of learning are covered in much depth and breadth alongside Montessori areas.
Staff provide a strong emphasis on children selecting their own activities according to ability which fosters independent learning, confidence and skill extremely well.
The quality of teaching is very strong.
Staff instinctively know when to make timely interventions in children's play to extend their learning and support children very well to think things through for themselves.