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Queen Mary Nursery

Ofsted: Good
(Jul 2024)
·Queen Mary Nursery, Middle Hill, ALDERSHOT, GU11 1PL · Hampshire
Number of places
72 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jul 2024
Local authority
Hampshire

About this day nursery

Aldershot Garrison Pre-Schools operates as a charity, governed by a committee of trustees, which includes parent representatives. The organisation is dedicated to providing high-quality care and pre-school education to both military and civilian families residing in the Aldershot area.

It comprises three distinct settings: two Pre-Schools and one Day Nursery. Each of these locations offers spacious, bright, and inviting playrooms designed to encourage limitless potential, complemented by engaging outdoor areas.

The pre-schools focus on term-time care, while the day nursery provides year-round services. The curriculum is crafted to offer children a nurturing and stimulating environment, rich with purposeful opportunities and experiences.

The aim is to create a space where children can freely play, learn, build friendships, take calculated risks, explore, challenge themselves, laugh, and ultimately grow into ambitious, independent learners prepared for future endeavours. The organisation prides itself on all settings being registered as 'GOOD' with Ofsted, ensuring outstanding facilities for the children in their care.

Our ethos

We are dedicated to providing children with a caring, exciting environment full of rich, purposeful opportunities and experiences. We aim to provide children with a place to play, learn, build friendships, take risks, explore, challenge, laugh and be themselves, whilst helping them grow into ambitious, independent learners, ready to take on the world.

What it's like

Children are warmly welcomed by caring and friendly staff, who take the time to get to know each child and their family well. Staff forge close relationships with children, and their interactions are positive. Their behaviour is good overall and minor disputes are quickly resolved by staff.

Charity-runMilitary and civilian familiesGood Ofsted ratingYear-round and term-time care

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare
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Key facts

Opening hours

Mon - Thu: 8:00 - 17:30, Fri: 8:00 - 17:00

Term time / All Year

All Year

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Queen Mary Nursery

Last inspected 2 July 2024 · Nicky Hill

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 warmly welcomed by caring and friendly staff, who take the time to get to know each child and their family well. Staff forge close relationships with children, and their interactions are positive. Their behaviour is good overall and minor disputes are quickly resolved by staff.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are warmly welcomed by caring and friendly staff, who take the time to get to know each child and their family well.
  • Children across the nursery are confident and readily allow visitors to join in their play.
  • The manager and staff have designed a broad and interesting curriculum based around children's interests and learning needs.
  • Staff help children to learn how to identify their emotions.
  • The management team has worked in partnership with some parents to establish a support group for the parents of children with SEND.

Areas to develop

  • 1provide further support for staff to develop their interactions with children to help them recognise when to simplify their exchanges with younger children and when to provide more challenge during conversations with older and most-able children to develop their thinking skills
  • 2enhance the information shared with parents so that they are given more precise details about their children's progress and next steps in learning to support them to extend their children's learning at home.
Inspection #10353688 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

the staff are enthusiastic and caring

the manager is approachable, hardworking and has made a positive change to the nursery

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) also benefit from the varied learning environments and receive good care and support from staff to make progress from their individual starting points. The management team has worked in partnership with some parents to establish a support group for the parents of children with SEND. Parents of children with SEND receive regular updates about their child's individual education plan.

Outdoor space

The outdoor environment is just as well planned for as the indoor rooms, enabling children who prefer to learn and play outside to benefit from activities covering all areas of learning. Older children plan menus at the mud kitchen with real vegetables, and younger children develop their senses as they explore lemons and limes at the water play.

Inspection history

Date: March 2013

  • July 2024Good
  • January 2019Good
  • July 2018Inadequate
  • July 2016Good
  • October 2013Requires improvement
  • March 2013Inadequate

Frequently asked about Queen Mary Nursery

About the setting

Queen Mary Nursery registered in 2013. It is owned and operated by Aldershot Garrison Pre-School Settings and is situated on Ministry of Defence property in the garrison town of Aldershot, Hampshire. The nursery is open for 51 weeks of the year, Monday to Thursday, from 7.30am to 6pm, and on Friday from 7.30am to 5pm. There are 25 staff employed to work with the children, of whom 15 hold a relevant childcare qualification. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

URN
EY447668
Registered person
The Aldershot Garrison Pre-School Settings
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
Good

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