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Greyfriars Pre School

Ofsted: Strong standard·
4.3(95 parent reviews) ·Greyfriars Community Centre, RINGWOOD, BH24 1DW · Hampshire
Number of places
30 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Dec 2025
Local authority
Hampshire

About this day nursery

Greyfriars Pre School, located in RINGWOOD, BH24 1DW, is a childcare setting on non-domestic premises that caters to children aged 2–4 years. Registered with Ofsted on 23/02/1995, it operates Monday to Friday from 08:45 to 15:30.

The pre-school received a 'Good' rating in its latest Ofsted inspection on 03/12/2025. With a capacity of 30 children, Greyfriars Pre School prides itself on creating a warm and supportive environment where children thrive.

The curriculum is carefully planned to be broad and ambitious, ensuring all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make excellent progress. Practitioners at Greyfriars Pre School are dedicated to fostering independence, problem-solving skills, and imaginative play through engaging activities, often linked to children's interests.

The setting also highlights a strong focus on outdoor learning, with children actively involved in daily garden risk assessments alongside 'Superbear', promoting a sense of responsibility and safety awareness.

What it's like

Practitioners are welcoming to children and their parents and carers, creating a warm and supportive environment that encourages regular attendance. They facilitate children's independence, problem-solving skills, and imaginative play through carefully planned activities and engaged interactions, ensuring all children, including those with SEND, are fully included and supported to make significant progress.

Strong progress in EYFSTargeted SEND supportOutdoor learning with "Superbear"Ambitious curriculumResponsive leadership

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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday : 08:45 - 15:30

Waitlist

Apply through the Greyfriars Community Centre.

Established

1995

Ofsted Inspection — new report card

Strong standard

Last inspected Dec 2025

Headline: Strong standard

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 routinesStrong standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingStrong standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Age range
2 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Greyfriars Pre School

Last inspected 3 December 2025

Safeguarding effective

What it's like to attend

Practitioners are welcoming to children and their parents and carers, creating a warm and supportive environment that encourages regular attendance. They facilitate children's independence, problem-solving skills, and imaginative play through carefully planned activities and engaged interactions, ensuring all children, including those with SEND, are fully included and supported to make significant progress.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are enthusiastic and motivated learners and make sustained progress across all areas of the early years foundation stage.
  • Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive targeted support and make excellent progress.
  • Children take great pride in joining the daily garden risk assessment with ‘Superbear’, promoting responsibility and safety awareness.
  • Leaders carefully plan a broad and ambitious curriculum that meets the needs of all children and regularly assess their progress.
  • Leaders are reflective in their practice and continually seek ways to make ongoing improvements, using feedback from parents and carers and practitioners.

Areas to develop

  • 1Leaders should sustain work to ensure continued improvement and high standards.
  • 2They should focus on creating a transformational impact on the outcomes and experiences of children.
Inspection #10108524 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive targeted support, enabling them to make excellent progress, particularly in the prime areas of communication and language, physical development and personal, social and emotional development. Practitioners adapt activities and provide additional support where necessary, ensuring all children with SEND are fully included and make progress.

Outdoor space

Children take great pride in joining the daily garden risk assessment with 'Superbear'. This promotes a strong sense of responsibility and awareness of safety. In the garden, children confidently remind adults not to go on the bridge because it is wet and slippery, demonstrating their growing ability to assess risks and apply their knowledge in real situations.

Parent Reviews of Greyfriars Pre School

4.3
(95)
Pankush Goyal
2 years ago

Nice staff, the outside is decorated nicely and the art gallery is so cool!

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Barry Barnes-Warden
2 years ago

The community or Greyfriars as its called is a very big centre. We were there for the annual am-dram performance, which was really good. They have at least three function rooms and good clean toilets which is important and lots of parking nearby, bonus. An ideal centre for almost any occasion.

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Steve Phillips
a year ago

Excellent community organisation with a host of events and activities. A good range of rooms for hire, a minibus service to bring people into town, a highly professional manager, and friendly and helpful staff ... and it's the best place to buy second-hand paperback books in Ringwood - still only 50p. If you've never been here ...go and have a look.

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Jessica Spencer
3 years ago

Sadly can’t recommend at all. Booked my daughters birthday party some months ago and paid on booking. No communication prior to the event but wasn’t worried as I had the booking. Arrived with the DJ, the face painter, all the food and decorations and one very excited birthday girl, to find the building was locked! There was no one there to help us, no number to call, and evidently no party. My daughter was absolutely devastated. I left a message on the answer machine at the time asking for them to call me urgently, and 3 days later, I’ve still not had a response! We rallied and saved the party with help from some strangers seeing my daughters distress, and other mums being ready to jump in and help. But from our local community centre, so help or sense of community at all. Very disappointed

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Mike Martin
9 months ago

Well organised book fair in this excellent, well appointed place.

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Inspection history

Date: March 2009

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.

  • February 2020Good
  • October 2013Outstanding
  • March 2009Good

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