The Pierhead Preparatory Montessori School is an independent day school that is located in Wapping, east London. It opened in 2009 and provides pre-school and childcare from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. When children reach the age of four and a half they attend full time. The school is situated on the first floor of a community and activity centre. There are currently 40 children on roll aged from two to seven years, two of whom are in key stage 1 and five of whom are under three years of age. The school aims to ‘educate the whole child and honour the diversity of each individual’. It uses the national curriculum alongside the Montessori philosophy of education. The proprietor is responsible for governance at the school. The proprietor and Inspection report: The Pier Head Preparatory Montessori School, 9–11 January 2018 Page 8 of 11 headteacher teach full time at the school. No pupils have a statement of special educational needs or an education, health and care plan. Pupils come from a diverse range of cultural heritages and many speak English as an additional language. The school was last inspected in February 2015 and was judged to be good in all areas. At the beginning of the inspection, the school did not meet all the requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. Leaders ensured that this was rectified by the end of the inspection.