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Treasure Island Playgroup

Ofsted: Good
(Jun 2025)
·Popley Fields Community Centre, Carpenters Down, BASINGSTOKE, RG24 9AE · Hampshire
Number of places
36 places
Age range
2–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jun 2025
Local authority
Hampshire

About this early years setting

Treasure Island Playgroup operates from Popley Fields Community Centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire (RG24 9AE), providing childcare for children aged 2 to 4 years. 30pm.

Its latest Ofsted inspection on 24 June 2025 resulted in an overall effectiveness rating of Good, maintaining its previous rating. The setting is highly regarded for its warm and inclusive environment where children quickly settle and feel safe, secure, and valued, fostering high levels of emotional well-being.

Staff implement well-established routines that help children understand expectations and promote stability, encouraging positive attitudes towards learning. The curriculum is broad and ambitious, ensuring all children make good progress from their individual starting points.

Children show curiosity and enthusiasm, engaging confidently in activities, and staff effectively support their communication and language development, including through targeted interventions for those with identified gaps. The playgroup effectively supports children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and works closely with parents and other agencies to ensure a smooth transition to school.

What it's like

The provider creates a warm and inclusive environment where children feel safe, secure and valued, leading to quick settlement and high levels of emotional well-being. Staff implement well-established routines that support children's understanding of what to expect next and promote a sense of stability, helping them develop positive attitudes towards learning. The curriculum is broad and ambitious, enabling all children to make good progress from their starting points.

PlaygroupCommunity Centre based

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Key facts

Opening hours

weekday, during school term times, from 8.30am to 3.30pm

Term time / All Year

Term Time

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Treasure Island Playgroup

Last inspected 24 June 2025

Overall effectiveness
Good

What it's like to attend

The provider creates a warm and inclusive environment where children feel safe, secure and valued, leading to quick settlement and high levels of emotional well-being. Staff implement well-established routines that support children's understanding of what to expect next and promote a sense of stability, helping them develop positive attitudes towards learning. The curriculum is broad and ambitious, enabling all children to make good progress from their starting points.

Inspector highlights

  • Leaders have a good understanding of what children need to learn and incorporate their unique interests into the curriculum.
  • Leaders make thoughtful decisions about how to teach different skills, balancing structured activities and independent play.
  • Staff and the committee work well together to provide good care and learning.
  • Children develop good levels of independence through daily routines such as self-serving meals and cleaning up.
  • Partnership working with parents is a strength, with staff providing extensive information and parent workshops to support learning at home.

Areas to develop

  • 1review the outdoor learning environment to further promote children's engagement in purposeful play that fully contributes to their good progress
  • 2develop and support staff to implement consistent behaviour management strategies that build on pre-school children's understanding of behaviour expectations.
Inspection #10404659 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children who have identified special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive effective support. Leaders establish strong working relationships with other agencies, including through securing additional funding and completion of assessments. Staff deliver targeted support that meets children's individual needs successfully, ensuring that children with SEND are supported to close gaps in their learning and that they and their families receive an effective transition to school.

Outdoor space

The outdoor area is not organised well enough to build on what children learn indoors. This can lead to too many choices and distractions during free play, which sometimes affects children's behaviour and disrupts others' learning. Some older children struggle to manage their behaviour during free play, especially outside.

Inspection history

Date: February 2011

  • June 2025Good
  • October 2019Good
  • June 2015Outstanding
  • February 2011Outstanding

Frequently asked about Treasure Island Playgroup

About the setting

Treasure Island Playgroup registered in 2000. It is a committee-run group and operates from the Popley Fields Community Centre, near Basingstoke in Hampshire. The pre-school is open each weekday, during school term times, from 8.30am to 3.30pm and receives funding for two-, three- and four-year-olds. All six staff hold relevant qualifications at level 3 or above.

URN
507945
Registered person
Treasure Island Playgroup Association
Day care type
Full day care
Register
Early Years Register
Establishment type
Childcare on non-domestic premises

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