Food
All meals, including a seasonal home-cooked lunch and/or healthy snacks, are included in the fees. This excludes extra hours added over lunch to contracted hours.
Growing Places @ Oakmeadow
Ofsted: Good
(Nov 2022)
Number of places
60 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2022
Local authority
Hampshire
About this day nursery
Growing Places @ Oakmeadow is a nursery where children's spontaneous play and ideas are central to their learning experiences. The nursery boasts well-equipped rooms that open into secure, enclosed gardens, providing children with opportunities to explore, create, and embark on many adventures year-round, thanks to all-weather canopies.
Unique features like a large sandpit, a water-pump, and a vegetable patch encourage outdoor engagement. Beyond full-day and flexible sessions, Oakmeadow offers breakfast club, after-school care, and holiday play schemes for children over five.
The nursery prides itself on its friendly and welcoming environment, encouraging families to visit and experience their approach firsthand. Ofsted reports highlight how children are at the core of all routines, learning with enjoyment and challenge, and being responsive and involved in their play.
Parents consistently praise the approachable staff and individualised attention given to each child, making it a highly recommended setting.
Our ethos
The nursery's approach centres on children's spontaneous play and ideas as the core of their learning. They provide rich environments, both indoors and outdoors, that encourage exploration, creativity, and adventure throughout the year. Children are described as being responsive and involved in their play, learning with enjoyment and challenge.
What it's like
Children are happy, engaged and settled, forming strong attachments with staff. They enjoy role-playing, developing their imagination and social skills. Children respond well to high expectations, demonstrating curiosity and a love for learning, particularly through reading and storytelling.
Well-equipped roomsSecure, enclosed gardensAll-weather canopiesHoliday play schemes
Pricing & funding
Pricing on request
This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.
Key facts
Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating
Last inspected 21 November 2022
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, engaged and settled, forming strong attachments with staff. They enjoy role-playing, developing their imagination and social skills. Children respond well to high expectations, demonstrating curiosity and a love for learning, particularly through reading and storytelling.
Inspector highlights
- The curriculum is planned using staff's extensive knowledge of the children and tailored to their needs.
- Skilled staff assess, plan and reflect regularly to meet individual children's needs, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
- Children benefit from specific nurture projects, like the 'Physical Project,' which supports listening, attention, and physical development.
- The manager is enthusiastic and passionate about early years and has made positive changes, including focusing on staff support and well-being.
- Parents speak highly of the nursery, praising the friendly staff and their genuine interest in children's lives and well-being, leading to initiatives like the community pantry.
Areas to develop
- 1provide Ofsted with the necessary information about new directors to enable suitability checks to be completed.
- 2review staff deployment to ensure all children are fully supported by staff, to extend their good learning experiences further
- 3develop staff practice further to support children in managing their own personal hygiene.
Inspection #10259732 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
genuine interest in the children's lives and well-being
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Skilled staff assess, plan and reflect regularly to ensure that overall they are meeting each individual child's needs. As a result, children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make good progress in their learning and development.
Outdoor space
Children take part in the 'Physical Project' which is designed to support children's listening and attention skills by getting them active outside. For example, children play games, such as 'traffic lights', outside.
Parent Reviews
4.0
(3)
Mike Clarkson
2 years ago
Our boys have absolutely loved attending Growing Places @ Oak Meadow for both the nursery and the holiday club. Shelley and Laura and all the team go above and beyond to make sure the children are well looked after!
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amy hudson
3 years ago
My little man had his last day in the baby room today and there aren’t enough words for the gratitude I have for the team! Laura and her team have continually gone above and beyond for my little boy and I and this has meant so much. My mum often collects my son and she had been a little unwell- the ladies totally understood this and often supported my mum with getting little man to the car and out safely. We are so lucky to have had the team care for us all and my little man has been so so happy. I went from being a mum terrified to leave my baby to being a mum who knew I could talk to staff and be open and share how I was feeling. When I shed tears Laura was there and when I’ve laughed a lot she’s been there too- no judgement. We do know how lucky we are and I just feel it’s right to say the positives and get the positivity out there. Thank you baby room team from the bottom of my heart ❤️I can’t recommend them enough.
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Polaris North
a year ago
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Inspection history
Date: November 2010
- November 2022Good
- November 2018Good
- July 2014Good
- November 2010Good
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