Food
Breakfast, snacks, cooked lunch and tea included in full day fees.
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.
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
Good to know
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
Last inspected 29 July 2024 · Jo Gunne
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
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Port Regis is truly amazing. The staff go above and beyond everyday
Inclusion & environment
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.
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.
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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Most recent inspection
29 July 2024
Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.
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