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Newpark Montessori Nursery School in London (N1)

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2025)
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5.0(8 parent reviews)
·Arlington Wharf, 45a Arlington Avenue, London, N1 7BE · Islington
Number of places
92 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2025
Local authority
Islington

About this day nursery

Newpark Montessori Nursery School, established in 2022, offers childcare for children aged 0-4 years. 30pm for 50 weeks of the year.

The latest Ofsted inspection, on 29/01/2025, rated the nursery as 'Good' overall. Staff create a nurturing environment, building strong, trusting relationships with children, fostering their emotional well-being and a sense of security.

They integrate children's individual interests into play, providing consistent praise and encouragement to motivate participation and positive attitudes. The nursery places a strong emphasis on physical development, both indoors and outdoors.

Babies are encouraged to climb stairs and navigate slides, while older children develop skills in games like football with the support of a sports coach, enhancing their agility and coordination. The curriculum is sequentially progressive, with managers and staff incorporating parent feedback and regularly reviewing each child's progress to tailor learning to individual needs.

This includes strong support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), where staff identify needs and provide tailored assistance to ensure positive outcomes. Similarly, children who speak English as an additional language receive strong support, with staff learning key words in children's first languages to help them feel comfortable and assessing communication development to provide targeted support, leading to good progress in understanding, listening, and speaking.

The nursery also works with external professionals, such as professional gardeners, to enhance children's understanding of nature and the environment, and promotes diversity through trips related to festivals and books from different cultures. Parents consistently speak highly of the care and progress their children make.

What it's like

Staff at this nursery build strong and trusting relationships with children, fostering their emotional well-being and sense of security. They integrate children's interests into play, and provide consistent praise and encouragement, motivating participation and positive attitudes. The nursery also provides strong support for children who speak English as an additional language and those with special educational needs, ensuring all children make good progress.

Strong relationshipsTailored supportPhysical developmentProgressive curriculumNurturing environmentDiversity appreciation

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)

Key facts

Opening hours

each weekday, from 7.30am to 6.30pm, for 50 weeks of the year

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Newpark Montessori Nursery School

Last inspected 29 January 2025 · Honufa Begum

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Staff at this nursery build strong and trusting relationships with children, fostering their emotional well-being and sense of security. They integrate children's interests into play, and provide consistent praise and encouragement, motivating participation and positive attitudes. The nursery also provides strong support for children who speak English as an additional language and those with special educational needs, ensuring all children make good progress.

Inspector highlights

  • Managers and staff incorporate information gathered from parents to plan a sequentially progressive curriculum.
  • Staff support children's physical skills development well, both indoors and outdoors.
  • Staff use effective strategies to support children's personal, social and emotional development, including using pictorial representations of emotions and caring for a pet fish.
  • Staff work closely with external professionals, such as professional gardeners, to enhance children's understanding of nature and the environment.
  • Staff are dedicated to helping children develop positive identities and an understanding of diversity through trips related to festivals and books from different cultures.
  • The nursery has established strong partnerships with parents, who consistently speak highly of the care provided and their children's progress.

Areas to develop

  • 1provide older children with more opportunities to develop their independence skills further
  • 2review the condition of resources on an ongoing basis to take prompt action when any resources are broken.
Inspection #10367515 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff identify children with special educational needs and/or disabilities and provide tailored support. This ensures that all children can achieve positive outcomes.

Outdoor space

Indoors, staff encourage babies to climb stairs and navigate the slide. Outdoors, older children, with support from the sports coach, develop their skills in playing games such as football. This helps children to improve their agility and coordination while strengthening their core muscles.

EAL / language support

Children who speak English as an additional language receive strong support. Staff learn key words in children's first languages to help them to feel familiar and comfortable. They assess each child's communication and language development and focus on areas that need further support. As a result, children make good progress in their understanding, listening and speaking.

Parent Reviews of Newpark Montessori Nursery School

5.0
(8)
The Zaveronis
3 months ago

My baby started at Newpark Montessori Nursery in August 2025, and he absolutely loves going there. As a full-time working mother and an educator in the UK, I feel completely confident in trusting the teachers to care for my baby while I focus on my work. Their curriculum and activities are very well aligned with the EYFS and support children’s key skills and intellectual development. They also actively involve parents and families in their inclusive activities, and my husband and I always enjoy being there and meeting the teachers and other families. This is a place where you can expect genuine love and care for your child in a safe and nurturing environment. All the teachers are professional, kind, and full of warmth. For me personally, this nursery has been emotionally healing, as I moved my baby here after he was badly injured at another local nursery. I cannot recommend Newpark highly enough. Youkyung and Fabien

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Susan Zhuang
a year ago

What an incredibly special place this is. Although our daughter attended Newpark for only a short period (we're only leaving because we're moving countries), their impact on her and our family has been enormous. It's hard to be working parents, first time parents, and parents without any family in London. Newpark has significantly lessened that burden on us by providing our daughter with a warm, nurturing, safe, and encouraging environment to grow in. The staff are absolutely amazing and it's been wonderful to see our daughter bond with them. A particular shout out to our key worker Ana who has been fantastic in her care. Newpark has been a perfect fit for letting our daughter unfold and explore with her independent and curious spirit. This nursery has really set the bar extremely high for any future nursery and educational setting we enter. We couldn't be more grateful and will miss them very much.

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Morgane Zerath
a year ago

After 1 year and a half at this nursery, we sadly have to move neighbourhood and leave. Our son started at 6 months old and he absolutely loved it. The staff is amazing, and in particular Diva. They made the whole nursery experience stress free and so smooth. I must say we got very lucky to have Diva as our son’s key person, and this made this past 1.5 year completely unique. She’s truly one of a kind and put the bar so high. She is an exceptional teacher and we’ll miss her a lot. Highly recommend this nursery.

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shelley vallance
2 years ago

Wow! What a nursery! We have been so very lucky since our daughter joined at 10 months old (Sept 2023). The care that all of the Newpark team provide is exceptional. Communication with parents is always thorough - and it’s clear that they team truely care. We have seen our daughter thrive under their excellent care and educational style. Having now just moved to their sister nursery - we will miss all of the staff but are happy to be remaining in the Newpark family. Thank you so much. We will be forever grateful.

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Bridget K. Deiters
2 years ago

We feel so fortunate to have started our daughter’s school experience at Newpark Islington. She absolutely thrives there under the care of Rihab, Alex, Cassie, and the entire staff. We were worried about shifting our daughter from a nanny to nursery, and it’s been such a wonderful transition for her, giving her structure and socialisation that she otherwise wouldn’t have had. Our daughter comes home looking forward to showing us what she learned and experienced that day, and each week she develops more skills and interests. Her favourite is her Tuesday gardening lessons! She also loved watching as eggs incubated and hatched into chicks this spring. The diverse backgrounds of her class also means she comes home telling us about different cultures and traditions from around the world, singing songs in other languages and talking about religions and holidays that she otherwise wouldn’t have encountered. The community of parents is also terrific — we’ve connected with so many other families in the area and consider our “village” much larger now than it was before our daughter started at Newpark. It’s a brilliant, pristine nursery with warm and caring staff and a happy student population.

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Inspection history

Date: January 2025

  • March 2025Good
  • January 2025Good

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