St Helens Montessori School

Overview: St Helens Montessori School is an outstanding independent school that provides an exceptional education for its pupils. The school's unique approach, inspired by Maria Montessori, fosters independence and self-directed learning, resulting in highly positive attitudes to learning and exceptional academic standards.

Strengths:

• Pupils are exceptionally happy and take a full and active role in the life of the school.
• Pupils demonstrate highly positive attitudes to their learning and are excited to learn.
• The school's reading programme has a highly positive and long-term impact on pupils, with children successfully learning to read and form letters very quickly.
• Pupils' knowledge and understanding of the school's curriculum is consistently enriched and extended through a wide, rich set of experiences.
• The school's ethos forms a key part of pupils' spiritual development, with daily collective worship and prayers.

Areas to improve: The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.