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Port Regis Montessori Nursery

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Jul 2024)
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4.5(2 Google reviews)
·Port Regis, Convent Road, Broadstairs, CT10 3PR · Kent
Number of places
85 places
Age range
1–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2024
Local authority
Kent

About this early years setting

Port Regis Montessori Nursery, located in Broadstairs, offers an enriching environment spanning 17 acres of private woodland. The nursery focuses on fostering independence and creativity through its Montessori approach, which includes specially designed classrooms that respond to the evolving needs of growing children, encouraging various forms of expression like arts, crafts, and drama.

Children have unique opportunities to learn and explore outdoor spaces, including a forest classroom where they can engage with nature and learn basic tool use in a safe setting. The nursery also features its own farm, allowing children to interact with animals such as ducks and chickens, and even anticipate new arrivals like piglets.

A distinctive feature is its direct access to the beach, providing a fun and stimulating environment for children to play in the sun and sand. The nursery is committed to strong relationships between staff and parents, believing it crucial for a child's learning and growth.

They aim to keep parents involved and informed about their child’s development, ensuring a positive and supportive experience from the very first day.

Our ethos

Port Regis Montessori Nursery is committed to fostering independence and creativity through its authentic Montessori approach, with children exploring a farm, private woodland, and beach. They prioritise strong parent-staff relationships to support each child's learning and growth.

What it's like

Port Regis Montessori Nursery offers a joyful and welcoming environment where children quickly settle and are prepared for their educational journey. Children thrive with exceptionally positive attitudes to learning, engaging in various educational experiences including rugby and yoga, and exploring the natural world through activities like hatching chicks and rock pooling. These rich opportunities foster happiness, motivation, and curiosity, ensuring continuous learning from the moment they arrive.

Montessori EducationForest SchoolNursery FarmBeach AccessOfsted Outstanding

Pricing & funding

Fees are structured by age bands (under 2s, 2-year-olds, and 3-year-olds) across early morning, late hour, full day, and full week sessions. Full day and full week packages include breakfast, snacks, cooked lunch, and afternoon tea. Weekly bookings benefit from a five percent discount.

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds

Good to know

  • Full day and full week packages include breakfast, snacks, cooked lunch, and tea.
  • Full week bookings include a 5% discount.
  • Offers 12 hours of government funding per week all year round for eligible 3 and 4 year olds.
  • Free early learning sessions are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis for eligible 2 to 5 year olds.

Key facts

Food

Breakfast, snacks, cooked lunch and tea included in full day fees.

Opening hours

Weekdays 7:30 am – 6:00 pm

Age range

3 months – 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Registered with Ofsted

2010

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Port Regis Montessori Nursery

Last inspected 29 July 2024 · Jo Gunne

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

What it's like to attend

Port Regis Montessori Nursery offers a joyful and welcoming environment where children quickly settle and are prepared for their educational journey. Children thrive with exceptionally positive attitudes to learning, engaging in various educational experiences including rugby and yoga, and exploring the natural world through activities like hatching chicks and rock pooling. These rich opportunities foster happiness, motivation, and curiosity, ensuring continuous learning from the moment they arrive.

Inspector highlights

  • The curriculum is designed with ambitious end points, providing superb opportunities for children to build knowledge and skills, supporting those with emerging skills to become experts.
  • Practitioners are highly skilled at delivering the curriculum due to excellent training, including support from a speech therapist, enabling them to effectively extend children's learning.
  • Children's early communication and language skills are prioritised, with practitioners expertly supporting speech, language, and communication development through various engaging methods.
  • The nursery employs a qualified teacher who has significantly contributed to staff training in mathematics, seamlessly integrating mathematical concepts into daily routines and activities.
  • Learning opportunities foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination, with practitioners skillfully supporting children's exploration, such as sensory activities and creating a bug hotel in the forest.
  • Parents provide wonderful comments about the nursery's support, with one typical comment being: "Port Regis is truly amazing. The staff go above and beyond everyday".
  • Practitioners consistently share the nursery's vision and values, taking pride in their work, while the passionate manager strives for excellence through meaningful supervision and well-being walks.
Inspection #10350655 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Port Regis is truly amazing. The staff go above and beyond everyday

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

All children aged one to four years, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, fully access the curriculum. Those children with higher starting points are provided with the challenge that they need.

Outdoor space

Children have free choice over whether to play indoors or outdoors in the forest. Practitioners create a sense of awe and wonder in the forest as children independently use natural tools to make holes in logs for a bug hotel. For example, older children use ribbons to measure how far they can jump when taking part in an Olympics activity outdoors.

Google Reviews of Port Regis Montessori Nursery

4.5
(2 Google reviews)
Edie-Bleu Bird
8 years ago

Lol at the other ratings when it was previously a school. My older 2 daughters went here and we mostly loved it. My younger of the 2 has special needs and this wasn't picked up, just the stuck up montessori worked refused to try with her because she wouldn't sit still. Hopefully she's no longer there. If I send my youngest daughter it will be based on the staff at the time.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

29 July 2024

Outstanding

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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