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To an exceptional Montessori pre-school for 2-5 year olds.
What makes us exceptional?
Qualified Teacher Status and Early Years Teacher Status managers ensure that the latest child development and child psychology pedagogy benefit your child's growth
True Modern Montessori education delivered by Montessori trained teachers gives your child an advantage for life
Part time Forest School provision in a real forest creates a unique mix of Montessori and outdoor education, facilitating calculated risk taking and reducing risks of future anxiety and depression in children
Level 3, 4, 5 and 6 trained teachers ensure every moment is a high quality teaching moment and low staff:pupil ratios ensure every child's needs are met
Immersive French as part of day to day provision facilitates language development in English and in French
Want to learn more?
In all previous setting inspections
We are open Monday - Friday
Our sessions are:
Breakfast club: 8:30 - 9:15 Mon - Thu
Mornings: 9:15 - 12:15 Mon - Fri
Lunch club: 12:15 - 13:15 Mon - Thu
Afternoons: 12:45 - 15:45 Mon - Thu
Full day: 9:15 - 15:45 Mon to Thu
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Alba Nurseries delivers a fresh and unique approach to early years education, one that puts teaching children the skills of wellbeing at its heart. Our strong curriculum provides children with learning opportunities from yoga and mindfulness, to science experiments, to forest schools.
A strong partnership with parents is always at the core of our offering and our eco-centric way of operating and teaching the children, helps build the next generation of sustainability aware little humans.
We use modern Montessori pedagogy, combined with the latest research in child development, child psychology and neuroscience to create a loving learning environment where kindness, curiosity and mindfulness thrive, while building the skills that give your child a real advantage in school and in life.
Planning of activities and of the environment is centred around the needs of each individual child. That way, they have plenty of opportunities to build on their skills, while participating in engaging play. Each child is able to use unique Montessori equipment to further investigate areas they find of interest. This gives our pupils a deeper understanding of concepts such as numbers, gravity, relative sizes, spacial awareness and much more.
Research shows that a Montessori approach has a number of tangible benefits for child development:
1. Academic - better performance in language, arts and maths, and a deeper understanding of abstract concepts - often a full school year ahead by sixth grade
2. Cognitive - Better cognitive development, including processing speed, working memory, and perceptual reasoning
3. Social and emotional - Better social competence, better emotional regulation and behavioural self-management
4. Creativity - Montessori students have better well-being at school, and show greater creativity, and problem solving
5. Confidence - Montessori education fosters independence, creativity, and intrinsic motivation, creating a solid foundation for future learning
Alongside our classroom learning, we also offer a Forest School experience. The philosophy of Forest School takes some of its ideas from Montessori and encourages and inspires children to develop their personal, social and emotional skills through activities that have them directly interacting with their natural surroundings, and with each other. Please do chat with us before deciding if this is something your child will enjoy, but we think the smile on your child's face as they emerge from the woodland will tell you all you need to know!
We believe that this commitment to exceptional education is reflected in all our historic Ofsted ‘OUTSTANDING’ ratings and we thank all our parents and children for their amazing support and commitment to us!
The following comments are taken from our last Ofsted Report and reflect on the standard of learning provided by our wonderful teachers using the rich and stimulating Montessori activities in our classroom:
“Children develop an outstanding level of independence from a very young age. They demonstrate superb levels of concentration as they play and learn with a meticulously planned selection of fun activities”.
“All interactions between staff and children are of an exceptionally high quality…These conversations support children to gain high levels of knowledge and vocabulary for their age”.
“Children are all extremely happy and feel very safe.”