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Potley Hill Community Pre-School

Ofsted: Good
(Jul 2025)
·
4.7(12 parent reviews) ·Frogmore Community College, Potley Hill Road, YATELEY, GU46 6AG · Hampshire
Number of places
36 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2025
Local authority
Hampshire

About this day nursery

Potley Hill Community Pre-School, established in 2010 and located in Yateley, Hampshire, offers a nurturing environment where children aged 2 to 4 years thrive. The pre-school operates during term time, from 8 am to 6 pm, Monday to Friday.

It prides itself on a highly ambitious curriculum that ignites children's curiosity and promotes independence, with a strong emphasis on outdoor learning, including a dedicated forest school. Staff build strong relationships with children and families, ensuring a deep understanding of each child's interests and developmental stage.

The pre-school encourages physical activity, communication, and language development through engaging activities like creative play and story sessions. They also focus on teaching children about safety, both in the forest school and pedestrian safety, along with promoting healthy lifestyles.

Leaders prioritise staff well-being and professional development, ensuring a continually reflective practice and high-quality provision. The pre-school is committed to inclusive education, with all children, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds and with special educational needs, making timely progress, supported by strong partnerships with parents and external agencies.

Our ethos

Potley Hill Community Pre-School is committed to igniting children's curiosity and promoting independence through a highly ambitious curriculum. They emphasise outdoor and forest school learning, encouraging physical activity, communication, and language development. The pre-school focuses on inclusive education and strong family partnerships, ensuring all children make timely progress.

What it's like

Children are happy and independent and thrive in this caring pre-school. Staff get to know the children and their families well, helping them feel safe and build strong bonds. Children behave well and quickly settle into chosen play activities.

Good Ofsted ratingForest School focusStrong parent partnershipsAmbitious curriculumEmphasis on outdoor learning

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)
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Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, from 8am to 6pm, during term time only

Age range

2 to 4

Term time / All Year

Term Time

Staff

20

Established

2010

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Potley Hill Community Pre-School

Last inspected 4 July 2025 · Kelly Lane

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 independent and thrive in this caring pre-school. Staff get to know the children and their families well, helping them feel safe and build strong bonds. Children behave well and quickly settle into chosen play activities.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are happy and independent and thrive in this caring pre-school.
  • Leaders and staff plan a highly ambitious curriculum that is designed to motivate and engage children.
  • Children make excellent progress with their physical skills, including using a whittling knife and climbing trees at forest school.
  • Communication and language are woven into children's play and learning, with staff introducing new vocabulary and leading animated story sessions.
  • All children, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds and with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make timely progress from their starting points.

Areas to develop

  • 1support staff to help children learn about the benefits of eating healthy foods, to promote their ability to make healthy food choices
  • 2strengthen support for staff to be consistent in their behaviour management strategies to help children to learn why their unwanted behaviour is not acceptable, and how it has an impact on others.
Inspection #10399436 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

parents say that their children have a real choice of their learning at the pre-school.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

All children, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds and with special educational needs and/or disabilities, make timely progress from their starting points. Staff work closely with parents and outside agencies to get children the help they need. External professionals regularly visit the nursery to provide staff with strategies to help children make the best possible progress.

Outdoor space

Staff plan and provide a vast number of opportunities for children to be physically active, both in the large pre-school outdoor garden and at the forest school. Young toddlers use their large muscles to carry big containers of water as they mix their creations of 'puddings' in the mud kitchen. Older children learn new skills, such as using a whittling knife as they peel carrots, and are skilful as they climb trees and refine their balance on the rope swing in the forest school.

Parent Reviews of Potley Hill Community Pre-School

4.7
(12)
ella Wilson
3 years ago

Potley Hill Preschool are absolutely fantastic! The staff are dedicated and highly trained, giving the children the best opportunities possible. The forest school is second to none and such a brilliant asset to the Preschool. My two children have passed through here and they still talk about their fun, years on! Couldn't recommend enough!

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Kellie Greener
9 years ago

Potley Hill Community Preschool is a superior, top-notch preschool in the Blackwater/Yateley area. The manager and her staff provide support, comfort, and encouragement to both the children and parents. Both of my children attended the preschool and their time at this fantastic setting prepared them for the next steps in their learning journeys, both academically and socially. All of the ladies have the children's best interests at heart and treat each child as if they were their own. The setting is provides the perfect atmosphere for a growing child to explore, play, and progress. Potley Hill Preschool is, without a doubt, the best preschool in the area. I highly recommend checking it out and seeing how great it is!

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Mirela Tiron
a year ago

Wonderful and nurturing preschool! Highly recommended. My daughter absolutely loves going here and developed beyond expectations. The love and care she gets from the staff, it’s just unbelievable! What a great place for our kids!

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Natalie Wallace
7 years ago

Our twin boys have attended this preschool for the last 5 terms, before moving on to primary school. I can't even express how happy we have been with the provision at Potley Hill Preschool. We looked at a number of preschools in the area and once with saw Potley Hill there was no competition at all! The environment was clean, bright and welcoming and the outside provision for the children was so attractive. The boys settled immediately into their life at the preschool and this is largely due to the outstanding care given by all the staff at the preschool. They all took time to get to know the boys so well - they were so clear about their interests and what motivates them to learn. On several occasions I know they adapted activities to ensure they were well tailored to the boys interests at that point of their life. When speaking with other mums and dads about the provision at their preschools I am so happy that we heard about and chose this preschool as in comparison to what I hear from others, I have no doubt that the staff and Potley Hill go over and above to ensure all children are well cared for, motivated to learn and just have the best foundation to the start of their learning. We have absolutely loved the preschool and would highly recommend it to anyone in the area who is looking. We can't wait for our next little boy to start there.

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Claire Davies
7 years ago

My little boy has been attending Potley Hill Preschool since February 2018. He absolutely loves it and all the staff there. Since Andrea took over and adopted the Curiosity approach, I have seen him thrive and learn without even realising he he is learning! It is like a home from home for them and all of the ladies are caring and so wonderful with the children. Even down to the little things like the fact that they visit the daycare centre and run a healthy snack station, it means that the children are learning more than skills to get them ready for school. I am so happy that I found Potley, I love the sense of community and just how happy my son is there. I will be so sad when he leaves to go to school, but so confident that he has been given the best preparation and has had the most fun before he goes up to school.

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Inspection history

Date: November 2010

  • July 2025Good
  • December 2019Good
  • September 2015Outstanding
  • June 2015Good
  • November 2010Good

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