Woodlands Early Learning
GoodTakes funded hours★ 5.0 on GoogleBirth to 8+Open for decades
A day nursery in Southampton for children from birth to 8+, open 07:30 to 18:00, 5 days a week. They take the funded hours. They do not publish prices, so ask. Rated Good by Ofsted in August 2022. Open since 2003, with 132 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
Funded hours
Free entitlement for 9 months and old is offered, contact our office admin team for details, conditions apply.
Worth knowing. Our funded hours are accessible without conditions, charges for meals, consumables or additional services. Parents can make voluntary contributions towards any consumables such as food, snacks, if they wish but these will not be billed for.
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
SO31 7BJWhat 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, 16 August 2022 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children arrive happily into the nursery and are greeted warmly by staff. Babies and younger children develop strong, nurturing relationships with their key staff.
They settle confidently into the new nursery routines and demonstrate that they feel safe and well cared for. Children behave well. Pre-schoolers listen well to staff.
They understand and respond to the rules that are in place to keep them safe. All children enjoy being independent and are keen to manage some age-appropriate routines for themselves. For instance, babies learn how to tip and drink from their water bottles, to support their good physical skills. Toddlers take great pride in feeding themselves using spoons. They develop good hand-to-eye coordination skills as they carefully scoop and transfer foods to their mouths.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- embed the curriculum more securely and enhance the intent behind planned activities to help extend children's learning even further n focus staff professional development more precisely on gaining skills and knowledge that can be used to enhance the support for individual children's learning, based on their particular needs.
- 16 August 2022Good
- 26 June 2017Good
- 8 January 2014Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 3 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Woodlands Early Learning
- What it costs
- Youngest age taken
- 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.
- Is there a place for my child's age? 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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