Cardiff Montessori School

Overview

Cardiff Montessori School implements the Montessori approach faithfully, embodying values of kindness, honesty, respect and responsibility highly successfully. The school enjoys the affection and loyalty of pupils, parents and staff, with leaders managing the school in a highly effective, compassionate manner. Most pupils make strong progress from their starting points, supported by authentic learning experiences and nurturing relationships.

Strengths

• The school empowers pupils to ‘be Montessori’, fostering inquisitive, confident, responsible and highly independent learners.
• There is a clear and progressive focus on sensorial, physical and cognitive development, with independent living skills taught from an early age.
• Pupils feel happy and safe due to nurturing and respectful relationships, confidently resolving many of their own problems.
• All staff know their pupils extremely well and respond to their well-being needs effectively, working as ‘guides’ to facilitate learning.
• The school meets all the Independent School Standards (Wales) Regulations 2003.

Areas to improve

• Formalise and sharpen quality assurance arrangements to focus on key areas for improvement.
• Ensure that teacher feedback is more immediate and helps pupils sustain improvements in learning successfully.
• Improve the quality of writing across the school.

Safeguarding

The report states that the school meets the regulatory requirements for the welfare, health and safety of pupils.