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The Barn Nursery School (Wootton)

Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2025)
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5.0(46 Google reviews) ·Wootton St Lawrence, Basingstoke, RG23 8PE · Hampshire
Number of places
52 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
Hampshire

About this day nursery

5 to 5 years. The day nursery fosters a nurturing and joyful environment where children can learn and grow through play and thoughtfully designed activities.

With a focus on encouraging expression and collaboration, children develop confidence and self-esteem. The setting offers spacious classrooms and outdoor areas, including a meadow and wooded space for exploration and forest activities, ensuring diverse learning opportunities in all weather conditions.

The day nursery is committed to providing a strong foundation for early education, recognising the critical importance of the first five years for a child's development. They offer engaging activities that ignite curiosity, promote active learning, and encourage critical thinking.

The Barn Nursery School values a strong partnership with parents, maintaining an open-door policy and regular communication to ensure the best outcomes for every child. Their highly qualified and enthusiastic teaching staff maintain low child-to-adult ratios (1:6), allowing for personalised attention and support for each child's unique needs and progress.

This approach helps children thrive and prepares them for their transition to school. The nursery was rated "Good" by Ofsted in June 2025.

Our ethos

The Barn Nursery School is committed to providing a strong foundation for early education, recognising the critical importance of the first five years for a child's development. They offer engaging activities that ignite curiosity, promote active learning, and encourage critical thinking, all within a nurturing and joyful environment that fosters expression, collaboration, confidence, and self-esteem. They also value a strong partnership with parents.

What it's like

Children arrive full of smiles and excitement, warmly welcomed by friendly leaders and staff. They confidently settle into exciting, hands-on activities, demonstrating a clear love for learning. Children form secure attachments, feeling a strong sense of belonging and expressing deep affection for staff.

Term-time onlyCountryside settingStrong parent partnershipLow child-to-staff ratios

Pricing & funding

Funding accepted

15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)15 hours — eligible 2-year-oldsTax-Free Childcare
Pricing on request

This nursery doesn't publish its fees online. Contact them directly for an up-to-date price list and availability.

Key facts

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, term time only. The main opening times are 9am to 3.15pm, with an early session available from 8.30am.

Age range

2 years 6 months to 5 years

Term time / All Year

Term Time

Session types

term-time only

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for The Barn Nursery School (Wootton)

Last inspected 24 June 2025

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 arrive full of smiles and excitement, warmly welcomed by friendly leaders and staff. They confidently settle into exciting, hands-on activities, demonstrating a clear love for learning. Children form secure attachments, feeling a strong sense of belonging and expressing deep affection for staff.

Inspector highlights

  • The knowledgeable and committed leadership team is proactive and constantly strives to offer the best possible standards in care and education.
  • Leaders and staff are dedicated to removing barriers that children face in their learning.
  • Regular supervision and access to an array of training opportunities help staff to enhance their knowledge and skills.
  • A wide selection of books is available to children throughout the day, fostering a strong early reading culture.
  • Children's understanding of the world around them and people in their local community are strongly promoted.

Areas to develop

  • 1enhance staff's ability to reflect on and adapt their practice to ensure the curriculum is delivered in a more precise way, and interactions consistently enrich and extend children's learning
  • 2review and strengthen the existing curriculum for physical development to effectively challenge, promote and extend children's gross motor skills further.
Inspection #10398121 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Staff particularly support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) very well, such as delivering targeted language interventions. Leaders create robust connections with external professionals and also work closely with parents, which enables children to receive the right support at the right time.

Outdoor space

The outdoor provision is not as stimulating as indoors. Staff do not consistently identify when children require greater physical challenge, such as when children easily balance on low-level planks. As a result, children's gross motor development is not sufficiently extended, and they are not always supported to take safe risks to build physical confidence.

Google Reviews of The Barn Nursery School (Wootton)

5.0
(46 Google reviews)
Aden M
7 months ago

We are so grateful to have found The Barn Nursery—such a beautiful and nurturing place. My daughter absolutely adored every day she spent there and already misses it so much! A huge thank-you to all the staff for the love, care, and attention you gave her—you truly provided the best start. We can’t wait for our second little one to join the Barn family!

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Charlotte Caseley-Austin
8 months ago

I highly recommend The Barn to anyone. The staff are amazing, treat all of the children with great care and attention and really set them up to be ready for school. My son really came out of his shell and grew hugely in confidence during his time at the barn, I’m so glad I took him out of a typical nursery setting to go here instead.

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Dominika Vojtěchová
9 months ago

Our son loved The Barn Nursery and so did we. It’s such an amazing place where the highly qualified teachers know exactly what they’re doing. They care about every single child from the bottom of their heart. I would never choose any different place and I’m so glad we found this little gem in a tiny village with a very short drive from Basingstoke. Thank you Barn, we will never forget how special you were to our son.

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Chris Meeking
a year ago

The Barn nursery is a great environment for children to grow and be ready for school. Both our children have attended the Barn and we couldn’t be more happier. All the staff are amazing at finding a balance between understanding rules, learning about the world and having fun, whilst at the same time understanding that every child is different and having a personal touch with each and every one of them. It feels a real community nursery, parents getting involved with the staff to help make the children ready for school. Our children and I have fond memories of the Barn and they talk about revisiting it all the time. Highly recommended. Can’t thank the staff enough for all they have done.

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Elise Jade Lawler
9 months ago

Most amazing, supportive staff. My little one has come on leaps and bounds since attending the barn nursery. Couldn’t be happier and couldn’t recommend this nursery enough! Special thanks to Miss Rachel, who always went the extra mile for my little girl. If you want a nursery who would treat your little one like family, this is the nursery for you.

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Inspection history

Date: October 2008

  • June 2025Good
  • October 2019Outstanding
  • November 2014Outstanding
  • October 2008Outstanding

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