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Finkley Hudson's Field Nursery & Preschool

Ofsted: Good
(Feb 2025)
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5.0(8 parent reviews) ·154 Castle Road, SALISBURY, SP1 3SA · Wiltshire
Number of places
60 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Feb 2025
Local authority
Wiltshire

About this day nursery

Finkley Nurseries, established in 2017 by early years expert Alison Dennis, provides outstanding care and education for children from three months to five years old. The nursery focuses on fostering a warm and engaging environment where children can learn, develop, and discover through hands-on play.

Starting with its first location at Finkley Down Farm in Andover, the group has expanded to include several other nurseries in East Anton, Weeke (Winchester), Hudson Fields (Salisbury), and Amesbury, with another setting planned for Overton in Autumn 2026. A distinctive feature of Finkley Nurseries is its emphasis on outdoor exploration, encouraging children to engage with nature in all weather conditions.

The curriculum integrates real-world experiences, such as visits to libraries, woodlands, and local attractions, to cultivate curiosity, self-assurance, and community engagement. Each nursery is thoughtfully designed to promote development through free-flow play, offering stimulating indoor and outdoor spaces such as spacious gardens, mud kitchens, vegetable patches, and sensory areas to inspire independence, imagination, and joy.

Finkley Nurseries is part of Attraction Nurseries, a network of childcare facilities connected to farm parks and family attractions across the UK, all dedicated to delivering meaningful and inspiring early years education.

Our ethos

Finkley Nurseries is committed to fostering a warm and engaging environment where children learn through hands-on play and outdoor exploration in all weather conditions. The curriculum integrates real-world experiences and free-flow play in stimulating indoor and outdoor spaces to cultivate curiosity, self-assurance, independence, imagination, and joy.

What it's like

Children enjoy arriving and receiving a warm welcome from staff. The provider has developed a broad and rich curriculum that helps children connect with members of the community through visits to local care homes. Children also benefit from lots of physical activity and fresh air, engaging with nature and using their muscles to climb challenging shapes.

Nature-based playCommunity-focused learningReal-world experiencesPart of Attraction Nurseries

Pricing & funding

Fees are fully inclusive of all daily meals, snacks, and essentials. The nursery offers a sibling discount and accepts government funding and Tax-Free Childcare.

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare
  • Full Day (Under 2s)£80 / day
  • Full Day (2-3s)£75 / day
  • Full Day (3-4s)£70 / day
  • Half Day (Under 2s)£45 / session
  • Half Day (2-3s)£42.50 / session

Good to know

  • Fees include all meals, snacks, nappies, wipes, suncream, and activities.
  • A 10% sibling discount is applied to the eldest child's fees.
  • Government funding (15/30 hours) and Tax-Free Childcare are accepted.

Key facts

Opening hours

7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Established

2023

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Finkley Hudson's Field Nursery & Preschool

Last inspected 4 February 2025 · Jonathan Payne

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Children enjoy arriving and receiving a warm welcome from staff. The provider has developed a broad and rich curriculum that helps children connect with members of the community through visits to local care homes. Children also benefit from lots of physical activity and fresh air, engaging with nature and using their muscles to climb challenging shapes.

Inspector highlights

  • The provider has an ambitious curriculum for all children and values their ideas, planning learning around their interests.
  • The key-person system effectively supports children's learning and development, with staff knowing children well and identifying appropriate next steps.
  • Children's communication and language are good, with staff modelling vocabulary, reading, and singing songs.
  • Staff interact well with children, engaging them in counting and understanding the meaning of numbers.
  • The provider accurately identifies strengths and areas for improvement, taking action to bring about improvements and supporting staff in making adjustments.

Areas to develop

  • 1improve the routines of the day so that children can continually learn the skills they need to be independent
  • 2support staff to make sure that expectations of children's behaviour are clear when teaching them so they can develop the skills to sustain their concentration and focus.
Inspection #10382810 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND. The provider addresses any concerns about children's progress and explains the support they provide.

Outdoor space

Children benefit from lots of physical activity and fresh air. They go for walks in the field, engaging with nature. Children use their muscles and practise balancing as they climb challenging and purposefully awkward shapes, such as old, large tractor tyres. Children use chalk outside to write letters from their names that they recognise. Children play with ride-on pedal tractors together while collecting cones, which they put into their trailers and deliver around the outdoor environment.

Parent Reviews of Finkley Hudson's Field Nursery & Preschool

5.0
(8)
Rianna Prescott
a year ago

My daughter is so happy at HF, she gets excited to go every single morning and is so happy to see all of her friends. She is absolutely thriving in preschool and particularly loves soft play. As a parent, I love how much time she spends outside and the experience of the natural world & local community she is getting. The staff all nurture and love her and she always comes home talking about her favourite grownups, especially Beth and Jade. Cant thank HF enough for making her early years so much fun 🤍

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Helen Thackray
a year ago

Really happy with this nursery, lovely staff who genuinely care. We've kept our little one here even though it's not the closest to us, he is thriving and it's definitely worth the extra drive!

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Elaine Clayden
2 years ago

Fantastic, lovely staff and a great nursary setting for little ones . We’ve been very happy indeed.

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HD LABELS
2 years ago

It took me 3 nurserys until we found one just right for our little Alfie. So glad we found this place.

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Plasters
2 years ago

Super friendly staff, Great atmosphere, Really well run.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

4 February 2025

Good

Only one graded inspection on record — a trend chart will appear here once a second graded report is published.

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