Riverside Nursery Schools - St Margaret's Montessori

Riverside Nursery Schools - St Margaret's Montessori was rated Good overall at inspection on 27 August 2024, representing a decline from the previous Outstanding rating (June 2022). The report uses the legacy 4-area framework (Quality of Education, Behaviour & Attitudes, Personal Development, Leadership & Management), all graded Good. This has been mapped to the November 2025 7-area framework as follows: Quality of Education maps to Curriculum and Teaching (Good, 75); Behaviour & Attitudes maps to Behaviour, Attitudes and Establishing Routines (Good, 75); Personal Development maps to Achievement (Good, 75) and Welfare & Well-being (Good, 75); Leadership & Management maps to Leadership and Governance (Good, 75). Safeguarding is Met (100). Inclusion and Achievement are inferred as Good based on the report's discussion of individual needs and progress across all areas. The single explicit improvement recommendation focuses on outdoor learning consolidation, indicating the nursery's core provision is solid but requires targeted enhancement to return to Outstanding status.