Opening hours
Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday : 08:45 - 15:15
Paddocks Pre-School
Ofsted: Expected standard·
5.0(1 parent reviews)
·Paddock Road, Wallingford, OX10 9LT · Oxfordshire
Number of places
32 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2025
Local authority
Oxfordshire
About this day nursery
Paddocks Pre-School, established in 1993, is a childcare setting for children aged 2–4 years, located in Wallingford, OX10 9LT. It operates Monday to Friday from 08:45 to 15:15, providing a warm, nurturing 'home-from-home' environment.
The pre-school accepts 32 children and follows the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. Staff are highly knowledgeable and provide practical and emotional support, fostering a safe and secure atmosphere where children develop trusting bonds.
The setting excels in supporting children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), with leaders rigorously monitoring progress and collaborating effectively with professionals like speech and language therapists. This ensures tailored, specialised support for individual needs, a fact parents are extremely positive about.
Children are encouraged to be independent, from choosing activities to finding their coats for outdoor play, which helps build their self-confidence and independence skills within a stimulating environment that sparks curiosity and imagination.
Our ethos
Paddocks Pre-School values strong cooperation and continuous communication between parents and teachers, believing it positively influences a child's development. They foster a supportive atmosphere where children can grow in confidence, with a strong focus on learning and social skills.
What it's like
Children are settled at this warm, nurturing, 'home-from-home' pre-school. Staff are knowledgeable and give children practical and emotional support, helping them build trusting bonds and feel safe and secure. Staff create an environment that captures children's imagination and curiosity, allowing them to independently select activities and engage with sustained concentration.
Warm, nurturing environmentStrong SEND supportFosters independenceEffective curriculumChildren's well-being focused
Pricing & funding
Pricing on request
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Request pricing →Key facts
Established
1993
Ofsted Inspection — new report card
Expected standard
Last inspected Nov 2025
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
AchievementExpected standard
Behaviour, attitudes and establishing routinesStrong standard
Children's welfare and wellbeingStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Age range
2 to 4
Registers
Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Paddocks Pre-School
Last inspected 20 November 2025
What it's like to attend
Children are settled at this warm, nurturing, 'home-from-home' pre-school. Staff are knowledgeable and give children practical and emotional support, helping them build trusting bonds and feel safe and secure. Staff create an environment that captures children's imagination and curiosity, allowing them to independently select activities and engage with sustained concentration.
Inspector highlights
- Staff skilfully provide activities and offer targeted support to ensure that all children participate fully.
- Children behave extremely well and play harmoniously with their friends, sharing resources and taking turns.
- Children are consistently well supported to embrace their independence skills.
- Staff make thoughtful use of funding to support individual children, such as obtaining sensory resources and apparatus to support children's physical development.
- The well-planned and sequenced curriculum meets all the learning and development requirements of the early years foundation stage.
Areas to develop
- 1Leaders should enhance staff's understanding of the mathematics curriculum and how to introduce the language of mathematics into their interactions with children as they play and learn.
- 2Leaders should continue to support staff's confidence to recognise when they can extend activities to further enhance children's engagement.
- 3Leaders should strengthen staff deployment to ensure staff engage fully with all children to increase children's enjoyment and extend their learning.
Inspection #10375384 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Parents are extremely positive about how the setting has identified their children's needs, receiving specialised additional support. Leaders ensure staff rigorously monitor progress for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities, ensuring effective targeted support through strong partnerships with professionals like speech and language therapists.
Outdoor space
Children are encouraged to find their coats and shoes from the cloakroom area when getting ready for outdoor play, fostering their independence.
Parent Reviews of Paddocks Pre-School
5.0
(1)
Ellie
a year ago
A nurturing, child focused and play based setting. My child thrived here. Staff are friendly and caring. Highly recommended.
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Inspection history
Date: July 2011
The most recent inspection point has been hidden because the parsed entry didn't match the headline Ofsted rating (Requires improvement). We're re-checking it against the original report.
- February 2025Requires improvement
- June 2019Outstanding
- July 2015Outstanding
- July 2011Outstanding
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