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Nursery at Overton Church of England Primary School
Last reviewed: October 2026 · Inspection data and key information above update regularly, however, this review below is refreshed bi-annually and may not reflect recent changes. Contact the nursery directly to confirm current arrangements. If you spot anything outdated or inaccurate, please let us know.
A purpose-built nursery for the year before school gives Overton’s youngest children a distinct starting point. The provision is designed for children aged 3-4, with capacity for up to a maximum of 60 spaces. Places are offered from September in the academic year when a child turns four, so this is a specifically timed preschool year rather than provision throughout early childhood.
September 2025 was the nursery’s planned opening. In March 2025, Ofsted judged the school’s early years provision Good. That judgement predates the nursery’s planned opening and should be understood in that context, rather than treated as a grading of this new provision.
Hedgehogs Class is the nursery’s class name. Its purpose-built accommodation gives the provision its own physical identity within the school, while the nursery aims to work with families as children begin their education.
The school aims to make learning practical and purposeful, using experiences children encounter directly. That is a useful educational emphasis for parents considering the nursery: the stated ambition concerns children’s experiences as well as what they learn. The school’s Christian values are Love, Hope and Faith, and it welcomes families of any faith or none.
A qualified Early Years Teacher is intended to lead the nursery team. That planned structure puts an early years teaching qualification in the leadership role, a concrete point for families weighing the educational character of the provision.
For the first opening on 3 September 2025, parents were encouraged to remain briefly while their child settled. This was an opening-day arrangement, with settling sessions before that date ruled out; it should not be read as a continuing settling timetable.
Across the school, safeguarding responsibilities include staff and volunteer training and prompt reporting of welfare concerns. The school also describes an inclusive ethos that treats children as individuals. These are school-wide arrangements and aims, rather than a separate assessment of nursery care.
Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through the normal admissions process and meet its deadline. Choosing this preschool year therefore needs to be a decision about the nursery itself, with the later school application treated as a separate step.
The nursery aims to provide session choices on weekdays within a 7.30am to 6pm window, across 50 weeks each year, excluding bank holidays. Those proposed hours depend on demand. Families planning working-day childcare should keep that condition in mind rather than assume the entire window is an assured booking pattern.
Both 15-hour and 30-hour funded places are offered, with flexibility in how the entitlement is used; childcare vouchers are accepted too. Universal funding starts in the term after a child’s third birthday and covers 15 hours weekly for 38 weeks. Eligibility applies to the 30-hour entitlement. Extra hours beyond funded provision require advance booking.
For nursery enquiries, contact the school office on 01256 770249 or email adminoffice@overton.hants.sch.uk.
Children aged 3-4 in the year before school, with places from September of the academic year in which they turn four.
The nursery can accommodate up to a maximum of 60 spaces.
No. The aim is weekday sessions within 7.30am to 6pm for 50 weeks annually, excluding bank holidays, dependent on demand.
Yes. The nursery offers both 15-hour and 30-hour funded places flexibly. Eligibility applies to 30-hour funding, and additional hours need advance booking.
No. Reception requires a separate application through the normal admissions process by its deadline.
