Opening hours
Monday to Friday, from 8.30am to 3.30pm
Testwood Baptist Church Pre-School
Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2024)
Number of places
26 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2024
Local authority
Hampshire
About this day nursery
Testwood Baptist Church Pre-School in Totton offers a nurturing, stimulating, and welcoming early years environment where children aged 2 and older feel safe, valued, and supported. The pre-school provides high-quality education rooted in play-based learning, drawing on various educational theories to ensure each child's best interests are prioritised.
The curriculum encourages hands-on, experiential learning, allowing children to explore the world around them, develop new skills, and form positive relationships. The pre-school fosters an environment that values individuality and supports emotional, social, and creative growth.
Testwood Baptist Church Pre-School is committed to working closely with parents and carers to help every child reach their full potential, developing confidence, independence, and a love for learning. The facility boasts wonderful indoor and outdoor spaces located at the back of Testwood Baptist Church, including a secure courtyard playground, all designed to support play, exploration, and learning.
Our ethos
Testwood Baptist Church Pre-School is committed to working closely with parents and carers to help every child reach their full potential, developing confidence, independence, and a love for learning. The pre-school provides high-quality education rooted in play-based learning, drawing on various educational theories to ensure each child's best interests are prioritised. The curriculum encourages hands-on, experiential learning, allowing children to explore the world around them, develop new skills, and form positive relationships. The pre-school fosters an environment that values individuality and supports emotional, social, and creative growth.
What it's like
Children are safe and happy in this friendly and welcoming setting. They form positive relationships with the warm, caring and attentive staff, who provide comfort to those who need reassurance. The manager and staff plan the learning environment well, motivating children to play, explore and make new discoveries.
Play-based learningNurturing environmentIndoor and outdoor spaces
Pricing & funding
Fees are structured as an hourly rate based on age, with separate tiers for two-year-olds and children aged three and four. These rates apply to unfunded hours or any hours attended beyond a child's funded entitlement.
Funding accepted
15 hours — working parents (9 months–2 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-olds30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)Tax-Free Childcare
Good to know
- Hourly rates apply to children ineligible for funding or for hours taken over the funded entitlement.
Key facts
Age range
2 years +
Term time / All Year
Term Time
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Testwood Baptist Church Pre-School
Last inspected 30 January 2024 · Nicole Atkinson
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 safe and happy in this friendly and welcoming setting. They form positive relationships with the warm, caring and attentive staff, who provide comfort to those who need reassurance. The manager and staff plan the learning environment well, motivating children to play, explore and make new discoveries.
Inspector highlights
- Children are safe and happy in this friendly and welcoming setting.
- Staff help children to develop a healthy lifestyle by providing regular opportunities for physical activity outdoors.
- Staff promote good manners, and children routinely say please and thank you.
- Staff support children's communication and language development well through stories, nursery rhymes, and repetition.
- Staff skilfully support children's emerging understanding of mathematics through activities like collecting water in the mud kitchen and counting while decorating "mud cakes."
Areas to develop
- 1provide additional support for individual staff to have a more secure understanding of how to implement the intended curriculum
- 2ensure staff provide children with opportunities to develop their independence and self-help skills
- 3enhance the arrangements to share information with all parents, especially for children with SEND.
Inspection #10317221 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
What parents say
Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection
Parents speak highly about the setting, and they praise the staff for the wonderful learning opportunities that children have.
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are identified swiftly, and focused support plans are put into place. Additional funding is used well; for example, the provider purchased story sacks, which are used to support and encourage children's engagement and concentration skills. Staff work well with other professionals to support children's learning and development.
Outdoor space
Children are given regular opportunities for physical activity in the outdoor areas. For instance, children enjoy climbing up the climbing frame and choosing which way they will climb or slide down. The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning.
Parent Reviews of Testwood Baptist Church Pre-School
5.0
(2)
Amy Christian
2 months ago
Both of my children had an amazing time at Testwood Baptist Church preschool! They loved having a balance of indoor and outdoor space to play in and choose where they could play. The staff are absolutely amazing and recognised the specific ways my children liked to play and how to get them ready for school. It is such a welcoming and safe place and my children loved going in every day. I was so sad when we had to say goodbye to everyone at the end of our time there but my children were happy and confident and ready to move onto their next adventures!
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Ben Christian
2 months ago
The transition to school was made so much easier thanks to the nurturing team here. Our child developed independence and a real love of learning. I would happily recommend this pre-school to other families in Totton, Southampton. Leah and the team are a great asset to our community.
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Inspection history
- January 2024Good
- May 2018Good
- July 2017Requires improvement
- September 2016Good
- September 2012Good
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