The Magic Treehouse Day Nursery

A Guides Hall provides the home for The Magic Treehouse Day Nursery, where play, conversation and outdoor exploration shape the day. This Feltham setting has 30 places in total and accepts children aged 24 to 60 months. In October 2023, children connected stories with imaginative play, built obstacle courses and received help expressing their feelings.

At its October 2023 inspection, Ofsted judged the nursery Good overall, found safeguarding effective and recognised support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), while identifying inconsistent sharing of specialist advice with key persons. That final point matters for families whose child needs coordinated support.

Attendance is term-time, with a school day and shorter morning or afternoon sessions. The practical appeal is a choice of daytime patterns rather than a single attendance block.

The hall setting includes indoor and outdoor opportunities for play. Children can choose resources and pursue their interests, while practitioners observe what they are doing and introduce questions or materials to extend an activity. This gives adults a role in developing play rather than simply supervising it.

Learning and Activities

The EYFS provides the learning framework: children develop communication, movement, relationships and early understanding of books, numbers and the world through play and planned activities. Alongside it, the group-wide ABACUS child-centred approach emphasises children's interests, with observation informing their next steps. Adult-guided activities sit alongside children choosing what to explore.

In October 2023, repeated work with a story helped connect books and play. The Gruffalo was brought into children's animal play, giving them opportunities to recall and retell a familiar narrative. Adults also responded to children's speech by expanding their phrases and modelling language. Books and conversation worked together.

Physical play had a similarly practical shape in October 2023. Children moved blocks to construct an obstacle course, then climbed and balanced along it; dough activities involved squeezing, rolling and using cutters. These experiences brought larger movements and hand control into the same account of the nursery day.

Outdoor and Community Life

Outdoor learning forms part of the current approach, with exploration beyond the indoor space supporting children's curiosity and physical activity. In October 2023, parent feedback had led to greater access to the forest area. That is a useful example of families influencing how the setting used its surroundings.

School preparation includes practising independence, communicating needs, managing self-care and becoming familiar with routines. Work with families and local schools supports that next step through preparation rather than an admissions promise.

Relationships and Communication

In October 2023, children sought adults out to explain their play or receive comfort. A picture timetable helped them understand the order of the day, while small responsibilities, such as helping with the calendar, gave them a part in familiar routines. These are tangible ways to make a nursery day more understandable to a young child.

Communication with parents combined conversations and app updates in October 2023. Practitioners knew their key children's next learning steps and planned activities around them. The useful connection was between what a child was doing, what adults intended to develop next, and what families heard about the day.

Inclusion and Wellbeing

At the October 2023 inspection, Ofsted identified that advice from external professionals did not consistently reach children's key persons and asked the nursery to make sure those recommendations informed support. Leaders worked with speech and language therapists, but the transfer of advice to the adult working closely with the child needed attention.

In October 2023, Bucket Time involved children waiting to discover an object taken from a bucket, practising attention and taking turns. Current staff development includes training in outdoor learning, sensory needs and communication support, alongside child protection and paediatric first aid. Training topics describe the team's preparation; the important question for an individual child is how that preparation translates into their daily support.

Families supply lunch and snacks according to the session attended. A morning requires a snack, an afternoon requires lunch and a snack, and the school day requires lunch plus snacks on either side.

Sessions and Attendance

The nursery opens Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm, for 38 weeks of term-time care. It closes for school holidays and bank holidays. Families therefore need a separate plan for those closures if their childcare needs continue across the year.

For both Blossoms and Willows, the School Day runs from 9am to 3pm. Half Day bookings run from 9am to noon or noon to 3pm. A shorter session and a complete school day are genuinely different options, with food requirements changing accordingly.

Getting There

The address is 2nd Sunbury Guide Hq, Groveley Hall, Hamilton Parade, Groveley Road, Feltham, TW13 4PJ. The nursery is a short bus journey from Feltham High Street & Sunbury Cross.

Enquiries can be made through the nursery's contact form, by telephone or by email. The branch's contact details and daytime opening window belong to this hall setting.

Funding and Paid Extras

Funded childcare includes 15 hours for families with children aged 2 years receiving support, 15 hours for children aged 3 to 4 years, and 30 hours for eligible working families. The nursery's accepted age range still applies: an entitlement covering younger children does not extend the ages this setting accepts.

Care operates during term time. Parents provide the food for funded attendance as well as other sessions. Current prices come in the nursery's written quotation; the charge position needs particular attention before committing to a booking.

• Funding and charges. The term-time offer describes places as fully funded with no extra charge, while the Blossoms and Willows session tables also carry paid rates. Ask which terms apply to your proposed booking and have the complete charge structure set out in writing.
• Specialist advice reaching the key person. The October 2023 improvement point concerned recommendations not consistently reaching the practitioner supporting the child. At a visit, ask how advice from a speech and language therapist becomes part of everyday activities and who reviews it with you.
• The term-time timetable. Sessions finish at 3pm and the nursery closes during school holidays and bank holidays. The school day, morning and afternoon options need to fit the rest of your family's working week.

The Magic Treehouse suits families seeking term-time school-day care or shorter morning and afternoon sessions, with play, language and outdoor exploration forming the educational approach. Its hall setting and parent-supplied food make the practical model easy to understand.

The October 2023 Good judgement provides a dated assessment of quality, with memorable examples of story-led play and children making their own physical challenges. Families needing specialist support should give equal weight to the key-person improvement point, while the conflicting funding and paid-session terms deserve a written resolution before booking.