“It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.”                                    – Maria Montessori

meet our staff

Bambinos Montessori Nursery  is proud to have a well qualified staff team who are the key to our success. Our staff all have a variety of qualifications starting at NVQ2, degrees and Teaching Status for Early Years with many years of experience in childcare and teaching.

Educators at Bambinos Montessori Nursery are warm and friendly staff.  They have been carefully selected to join our team to ensure that our children's interests come first.  Staff have First Aid training and continue their childcare interests by attending relevant courses such as Special Education Needs, Makaton training, Health and Safety, Food Hygiene and Safeguarding courses, to name a few, through the support of the local authority.   We have also appreciated 'parents as helpers'. This has been a positive reflection on our practise promoting excellent communication with parents and good relationships with all parents and carers; This has been awarded outstanding practise by OFSTED in previous inspections.   

As part of our recruitment process you will be reassured to know that we have strict guidelines with our process following the statutory requirements set out by OFSTED.  We begin by receiving up to date cvs' followed by a telephone interview.  If successful, we then invite the candidate for an interview with our deputy manager present.  This involves gaining the candidate's knowledge of childcare/ EYFS & Montessori Practise. A full in depth look at their work history and references are sought after.   During this process a  half days trial is carried out.  During this stage, we observe their practice and knowledge skills with children, the environment and staff.  Once this is complete, we will hold another telephone interview stage to discuss work policies and commitments.  Each new employee will carry out a 6-month probation period.  During this time we regularly hold induction meetings, termly supervision meetings and have a yearly appraisal with all individual members. Criminal Record checks are also carried out prior to employment commencing.  All registered parents and carers are able to acknowledge this along in line with Data Protection with staffing qualifications.   

We follow government regulations in staff to child ratio.  Currently, these are as follows:

Meet our dedicated staff