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Holy Family Pre-School

Ofsted: Outstanding
(Jul 2025)
·Holy Family School, Mansel Road West, Southampton, SO16 9LP · Southampton
Number of places
40 places
Age range
3–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2025
Local authority
Southampton

About this day nursery

Holy Family Catholic Primary School, located in Southampton, is a nurturing two-form entry institution committed to providing a rich learning experience. The school aims to develop children into successful learners, confident individuals, and responsible citizens, valuing each child's unique contribution.

Central to its mission is a focus on deep learning experiences that foster resilience, happiness, good manners, and security within a vibrant and successful learning community. The school is guided by Gospel values, promoting a happy, inclusive, and familial atmosphere, and strives to embody principles of Truth, Honesty, Peace, and Justice.

Holy Family offers an exciting and high-quality curriculum designed to cultivate a "thirst" for learning and appropriately challenge students throughout their primary education. The school believes that a happy and safe environment is crucial for achievement, and it sets high standards for academic progress and behaviour.

With an emphasis on individual needs, the school builds confidence, encourages creativity and independence, and prepares children for life beyond primary school. They also highlight their extensive ICT provisions, diverse play areas, and beautiful gardens and grounds as key features of their facilities.

Our ethos

Holy Family Catholic Primary School aspires to provide a rich learning experience where children are encouraged to become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens. We value each child’s contribution to our community and look to develop the whole child. Our core purpose is to provide a deep learning experience for our children throughout their primary lives, so that they are resilient, happy, well-mannered and secure. We are a happy, exciting and successful learning community with Jesus at the centre. We are proud that our Gospel values engender a happy, inclusive, family atmosphere. We hope to shine a light of goodness into our community and live our lives by the principals of Truth, Honesty, Peace and Justice for all.

What it's like

Children thrive in this warm, nurturing and stimulating environment. Staff get to know every child exceptionally well and build deep and meaningful relationships through very high-quality interactions. Children demonstrate that they feel safe and secure as they actively involve staff in their play and share their experiences and achievements.

Catholic Primary SchoolOutstanding Ofsted RatingPart of The Learning Federation

Pricing & funding

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Key facts

Opening hours

8.30am until 3.15pm each weekday

Term time / All Year

Term Time

Established

1998

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Holy Family Pre-School

Last inspected 8 July 2025 · Natalie Riley

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

What it's like to attend

Children thrive in this warm, nurturing and stimulating environment. Staff get to know every child exceptionally well and build deep and meaningful relationships through very high-quality interactions. Children demonstrate that they feel safe and secure as they actively involve staff in their play and share their experiences and achievements.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders and staff develop a highly ambitious and thoughtful curriculum that is well embedded into everyday practice, enabling every child to reach their full potential.
  • Staff use assessment and robust progress monitoring arrangements to accurately identify what they want children to learn next, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as an additional language.
  • Children have an abundance of opportunities to learn about the world around them through carefully planned and purposeful experiences.
  • Children develop an early understanding of mathematics, which staff embed during every interaction.
  • Children develop excellent physical skills as a result of carefully sequenced activities.
Inspection #10407428 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

parents speak highly of the care and education that children receive and genuinely value the regular updates on their children's learning

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff use assessment and robust progress monitoring arrangements to accurately identify what they want children to learn next. They use this to form a tailored approach that ensures all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as an additional language, make excellent progress within their learning. Staff work seamlessly with other professionals, including speech and language therapists, to provide exceptional support from the earliest point.

Outdoor space

The inspector observed the quality of education provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.

EAL / language support

Staff use assessment and robust progress monitoring arrangements to accurately identify what they want children to learn next. They use this to form a tailored approach that ensures all children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who speak English as an additional language, make excellent progress within their learning.

Inspection history

Date: April 2005

  • August 2025Outstanding
  • July 2025Outstanding
  • January 2020Outstanding
  • January 2020Outstanding
  • December 2014Outstanding
  • November 2014Outstanding
  • June 2009Good
  • June 2009Good
  • February 2006Good
  • April 2005Good

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About the setting

Holy Family Pre-School registered in 1998 and operates from premises within the Holy Family Primary School on the Millbrook Estate in Southampton. The pre-school opens each weekday during school term times. The pre-school employs eight staff, all of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 or above, including one member of staff with level 5. The pre-school receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

URN
131537
Registered person
Holy Family Playgroup Committee
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises
Previous rating
Outstanding

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