The Deenway Montessori School

Overview: The Deenway Montessori School provides a good quality of education, with a strong community atmosphere and effective relationships between pupils and staff. Pupils value their education and develop a sense of responsibility from an early age. The school promotes independence and prepares pupils well for the next stage of their education.

Strengths:

• Pupils love school and value the strong community atmosphere.
• Strong relationships between pupils and staff ensure that pupils feel safe.
• The school promotes independence and responsibility from an early age.
• Pupils develop strong reading skills through the school's effective and consistent approach to teaching reading.
• Pupils achieve well in all phases and develop valuable personal and learning skills.

Areas to improve:

• The school's careers programme is not as well developed as it could be, and pupils are not as fully informed about future career options as they could be.
• The school is not currently using all its resources as fully as it could to support the youngest children's physical development.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.