Opening hours
Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday : 08:00 - 18:00
Farley Sparsholt Outdoor Nursery School
Ofsted: Expected standard·
5.0(1 parent reviews)
·Garstons Track, Westley Lane, Winchester, SO21 2NB · Hampshire
Number of places
76 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2026
Local authority
Hampshire
About this day nursery
Farley Sparsholt Outdoor Nursery School, established in 2014, offers childcare for children aged 0-4 years. Operating Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 18:00, this outdoor nursery fosters a unique learning environment where children spend the majority of their time playing and exploring outdoors.
This focus on outdoor play contributes to strong physical development, including gross and fine motor skills, as children engage in activities such as navigating obstacle courses, climbing, jumping, and using tools like pipettes in water. The nursery has a strong commitment to an ambitious Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, with a particular emphasis on physical and purposeful language development.
Children demonstrate resilience and confidence, actively engaging in imaginative play in the mud kitchen and learning about nature through building wormeries and tending to an allotment. The setting effectively supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, with practitioners confidently assessing and planning to meet individual needs, ensuring children feel safe and secure, and preparing them for their next stage of learning.
Leaders and practitioners work closely with families and external agencies, making swift referrals when necessary and adapting activities to support children's personal, social, and emotional development.
What it's like
Children thrive at this nursery, demonstrating resilience and confidence as they eagerly explore the outdoor environment, happily spending the majority of their time there. They develop their imagination through role-play in the mud kitchen and learn about the world around them by building wormeries and growing vegetables in their allotment.
Outdoors-focusedResilient childrenStrong physical developmentPurposeful languageEffective SEND support
Key facts
Established
2014
Ofsted Inspection — new report card
Expected standard
Last inspected Jan 2026
Grade summary
Exceptional
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Strong standard
Expected standard
Needs attention
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Urgent improvement
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Each dot represents one of the six inspection categories. Headline is the average of the six grades, rounded up.
Category grades
AchievementStrong standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesExpected standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
0 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Farley Sparsholt Outdoor Nursery School
Last inspected 20 January 2026 · Natasha Jarvis
What it's like to attend
Children thrive at this nursery, demonstrating resilience and confidence as they eagerly explore the outdoor environment, happily spending the majority of their time there. They develop their imagination through role-play in the mud kitchen and learn about the world around them by building wormeries and growing vegetables in their allotment.
Inspector highlights
- Children are remarkably resilient and confident, helping to prepare them, including those with SEND, for their next stage of learning.
- Children strengthen their physical skills through challenges such as obstacle courses, and develop strong independence skills through everyday routines.
- Leaders take swift action to reduce barriers children face to their learning, effectively assessing and planning to meet the needs of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
- Children develop a strong understanding of personal safety and their physical capabilities by taking appropriate risks and are supported to recognise, express, and manage their emotions.
- The curriculum is ambitious and ensures children receive teaching across all areas of the early years foundation stage, with a key focus on physical development and purposeful language development.
Areas to develop
- 1Leaders should further develop staff knowledge and understanding of the curriculum to enable all staff to extend children's learning further.
- 2Leaders should strengthen routines and transitions to enhance teaching and learning.
Inspection #10326629 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are remarkably resilient and confident, which helps prepare them for their next stage of learning. Practitioners are confident in assessing and planning to meet their needs, regularly reviewing their approach to close developmental gaps. Leaders and practitioners work closely with families and agencies like speech and language therapists, making swift referrals and adapting activities, with a particular focus on personal, social, and emotional development, to help children feel safe and secure.
Outdoor space
Children happily spend the majority of their time at this nursery outdoors, excitedly jumping in and out of muddy patches and developing their imagination in the mud kitchen. As an outdoor nursery, there is a key focus on children's physical development, including gross motor skills from climbing and jumping, and fine motor skills using objects like pipettes in water. Children also learn about the world around them by building a wormery and growing vegetables in their allotment.
Parent Reviews of Farley Sparsholt Outdoor Nursery School
5.0
(1)
Jay Patel
3 years ago
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Inspection history
Improved from Inadequate → Good in 2024
Date: April 2016
The most recent inspection point has been hidden because the parsed entry didn't match the headline Ofsted rating (Good). We're re-checking it against the original report.
- June 2024Good
- January 2024Inadequate
- September 2019Outstanding
- August 2016Outstanding
- April 2016Inadequate
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