Hyde Pre-School
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Open for decades
A day nursery in Fordingbridge for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 09:00 to 15:00, 4 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in December 2024. Open since 1992, with 30 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Early Years Education (EYE) funding of up to 15 hours of funded childcare per child, per week is available for every child the term after their third birthday and 2 year funding and 30 hour funding is available subject to parent circumstances.
What childcare usually costs in Hampshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Hampshire from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
SP6 2QHWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 17 December 2024 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happy and ready to learn. They know the routine and confidently enter the pre-school. Children find their pictures to self-register. Staff use this time to find out how the children are feeling as the children put their photos against pictures that represent emotions, such as happy, sad, angry or sleepy. Children independently hang up their coats and put away their lunch boxes. They choose what they would like to do from the activities staff provide.
Staff provide a broad and balanced curriculum based on the children's interests and developmental needs. They provide many opportunities for children to practise their physical skills. For example, during a forest school session, children push their child-sized tractors to the top of the hill and excitedly wheel back down. They climb on the swings and navigate how to move backwards and forwards. This helps to develop their coordination.
Staff have high expectations for behaviour and children understand the rules and boundaries. For example, children know that if they would like to ride on a particular tricycle, they can use the egg timer. Children confidently turn it over to start the waiting time. They watch the sand go down and then ask their friends for a ride. This promotes their confidence and understanding of sharing and turn taking. All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make good progress from their starting points.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- strengthen the teaching of the curriculum further, to more precisely adapt activities to individual children's learning needs n enhance teaching strategies to further extend children's speech and language skills to an even higher level.
- 17 December 2024Good Safeguarding: Yes
- 6 February 2019Outstanding
- 26 November 2015Good
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Hyde Pre-School
- What it costs
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- What does it cost, all in? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
Day nurseries within a couple of miles
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