Nursery Admission Criteria

The school Nursery offer two classes. Caterpillar class attend 8.55am-3.15pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Butterfly class attend 8.55am-3.15pm Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

Reserving a place

Please get in touch with the school office to fill in an application form and request your preference of attendance pattern. The application form states the deadline date for applications, as well as the offer dates.

Parents will need to accept their offer place by the stated deadlines, or the place will be withdrawn and offered to the next eligible child.  

Are the three days flexible?

No, we only offer two attendance patterns of Monday-Wednesday or Wednesday-Friday. This is to ensure continuity for the children and also to give them the best possible start with opportunities for their experiences and learning to be enhanced and developed across the week. 

Nursery Admission Criteria

Where the number of applications exceeds the number of Nursery places, the Governors will offer places using the following criteria in the order stated -

1. Children in public care (looked after children) or children previously in care, but subsequently adopted or subject to a residence or special guardianship order.
2. Children with exceptional medical, educational or social needs supported by an Education,  Health and Care Plan or through consultation from an appropriate professional. 
3. Children who have a sibling(s) who will still be attending the nursery/school at the time of
   admission.
4. Children living nearest to the nursery class based on the distance from the home address to the school measured in a straight line in accordance with the North Tyneside Council measurement of home.
   

In the event of a tie in any category, priority would be given to children who live the shortest walking distance from their residence to the school gate. 

Applications received after Nursery places have been offered will be allocated remaining places or, if the Nursery is full, they will be placed on a waiting list. 

Waiting List 

Waiting lists for admissions to Nursery are compiled using the same priorities. When any child has equal priority with another, the child living nearest to school based on the distance from their home address to the school measured in a straight line in accordance with the North Tyneside Council measurement of home

In the event you do not get your first choice of attendance pattern, please contact the school office and a waiting list will be compiled on a first come first served basis. 

Right of appeal

Decisions made on offering Nursery places are made by the school in line with the admissions criteria outlined in details above. You have the right to appeal against any decision made and a governor’s appeal panel has been set up specifically for this purpose.
If you wish to exercise your right of appeal please write to the governor’s appeal panel, c/o the Headteacher.
Any appeal must be based on whether the school followed its agreed admission arrangements. The appeal must state why the parent believes that the school has not followed these arrangements.

Policy Review

This policy will be updated annually by the Governors in the spring term of each year.