Admissions

The Academy's admission arrangements can be found under the policy section of the website and here. 

Three year old children are eligible for admission to Nursery, although the date of admission is dependent upon places available in our 30 place setting. 

Priority is given to the children who have siblings already attending the Academy and are living within the school’s admission zone.

The Early Years, Nursery team can facilitate a limited number of flexible places for children attending our Nursery setting.  Generally pupils will attend either on a morning or for an afternoon session for 3 hours.  However, to support families, a child’s entitlement can be grouped together to enable either all day participation for Monday, Tuesday to lunchtime on Wednesday or Wednesday afternoon and all day for Thursday and Friday.  For more details about the criteria for selection and to discuss these arrangements, please speak to Miss Pounder, Lower Team leader.

Children begin full time education in the September before their 5th birthday. When children enter full time education in Reception class, we find a smooth transition from Nursery to Reception is essential to ease your child into school life.  

Our transition arrangements take place from the first Tuesday in July when all children 'move up' to the next stage in their learning journey with us and their new class.  The new Reception class will spend an initial morning on the Tuesday in their new class with new teaching team. They will be collected at 12 noon. The following day, Wednesday,  they will once again spend the morning in their new class and also stay for lunch . They will then be welcomed and begin full-time from the Thursday.

This transition strategy is supportive and very effective in reducing the fears of starting full-time education both for families and the children themselves.