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Finkley Weeke Nursery and Pre School

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2023)
·1st Place Scout H Q, Fleming Road, Winchester, SO22 6EE · Hampshire
Number of places
40 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2023
Local authority
Hampshire

About this day nursery

Finkley Nurseries, established in 2017 by early years expert Alison Dennis, provides outstanding childcare and education for children aged 3 months to 5 years. The nursery group is dedicated to fostering a stimulating and engaging setting where children can thrive, learn, and explore through imaginative play.

Starting with its first location at Finkley Down Farm in Andover, the group has since expanded to include several other nurseries in various locations, with a new branch in Overton slated for 2026. A distinctive feature of Finkley Nurseries is its strong emphasis on outdoor learning and community engagement, ensuring children experience the world around them regardless of the weather.

They participate in diverse outings, visiting local libraries, woodlands, and even engaging with care home residents. Each nursery is thoughtfully designed to facilitate development through free-flow play, both indoors and outdoors, offering expansive gardens, mud kitchens, vegetable patches, and sensory areas to spark independence, creativity, and happiness.

As part of Attraction Nurseries, Finkley Nurseries shares a commitment to providing meaningful and inspiring early years education.

Our ethos

Finkley Nurseries is dedicated to fostering a stimulating and engaging setting where children can thrive, learn, and explore through imaginative play. They strongly emphasise outdoor learning and community engagement, participating in diverse outings and offering expansive gardens, mud kitchens, and vegetable patches to spark independence, creativity, and happiness.

What it's like

Children are happy and settled. Staff use their comprehensive knowledge and understanding of each child's development to move them on in their learning. They work well as a team to meet children's individual care and learning needs, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Emphasis on outdoor learningCommunity engagementFree-flow play environmentNutritious meals provided

Pricing & funding

Pricing on request

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 8am to 6pm, for 51 weeks a year

Age range

3 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

All Year

Established

2021

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Finkley Weeke Nursery and Pre School

Last inspected 23 January 2023

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 are happy and settled. Staff use their comprehensive knowledge and understanding of each child's development to move them on in their learning. They work well as a team to meet children's individual care and learning needs, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Inspector highlights

  • Managers and staff are highly committed to continually improving children's care and learning.
  • Managers welcome opportunities for staff to receive team training that builds their knowledge and professional development.
  • Staff value and seek children's ideas.
  • Staff support children well to develop and use a wide range of vocabulary.
  • Staff support children well to develop the skills they need for the future.

Areas to develop

  • 1strengthen staff's skills in recognising and responding to opportunities to build on children's interest in number and support their mathematical understanding
  • 2develop staff knowledge of how to support and develop all children's interaction with others, to further build their social skills.
Inspection #10269487 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff use their comprehensive knowledge and understanding of each child's development to move them on in their learning. They work well as a team to meet children's individual care and learning needs, including children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Managers have provided training that has improved staff understanding of how to incorporate children's next steps for learning into activities. As a result, staff skilfully adapt the curriculum to meet children's individual needs, including children with SEND. The special educational needs coordinator spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND.

Outdoor space

Children enjoy regular outings in the local community that help them to learn about the world. Children confidently name the colours of the rainbow on a sign in the garden. The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and completed a joint observation with one of the managers, assessing the impact this was having on children's learning.

Inspection history

Most recent inspection

23 January 2023

Good

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

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