In accordance with the Sutton Community Schools Admissions Arrangements for Entry in
Please read the following information about our available Nursery classes:
All of our Nursery classes are based on our Hackbridge Corner (Hackbridge Road, SM6 7AX) site.
a) 15 Hours Universal Free Education Only
b) 30 Hours Universal Plus Extended Entitlement Provision Only
Parents of children applying to join the 30-hour Nursery class can apply separately for a place in the school's Breakfast Club - please note that places are limited and cannot be guaranteed. Further details can be found here.
We are not able to offer any after school wraparound care facility for Nursery pupils.
Attendance in one of our Nursery classes does not give priority for a place in Reception at the school and a separate application for a starting school/Reception place must be made directly to the London Borough of Sutton.
Children will be eligible for consideration for entry to Nursery from the term after their third birthday.
Applications for Nursery places at Hackbridge Primary School must be made directly to the school using the school’s Nursery application form which can be download here or a paper copy can be collected from the School Office at either site.
Parents/Carers should ensure that they indicate on their application form which type of provision they are applying for by ticking in the box next to provision type that they wish their child to be considered for a place at.
Applications to start Nursery in must be made between 14th September and 15th January . Any applications received after this date will be considered ‘late’.
There may be some in-year vacancies for children to start Nursery if there are unfilled places and where their age makes them eligible. Please check availability with the School Office.
30-Hour Places for - Please Be Advised that All Places in Our 30-Hour Class for September Have Already Been Offered out And, Due to Over-Subscription, There Is Already a Waiting List for Pupils Eligible to Start in September. We Will Not Have Any Further Vacancies to Offer In-Year Unless an Older Eligible Child Declines Their Offer of A Place or A Child Later Leaves In-Year (which Cannot Be Known or Guaranteed). at The Time of Writing This Therefore Means that There Will Be No Intake in January or April for The 30-Hour Class Unless There Is Significant Movement out Of the Class. There Are Currently Also a Limited Number of Vacancies for in Both the 15-Hour Morning and Afternoon Nursery Classes.
Admissions and Oversubscription Criteria for Nursery For
When our nursery is over-subscribed, applications for admission in will be ranked against the following factors:
Please note only category (i) places will be filled at the initial allocation stage – offers for these places will be made in May each year.
We will only offer places for any available vacancies for category (ii) or (iii) applicants in November and February each year, if places remain vacant at those points.
Within each of these bands, applications will be ranked as below
If oversubscription occurs in category (d), and home to school distance is equal, rank order will be randomly generated.
As a Community School, Hackbridge Primary School admits pupils in line with the London Borough of Sutton Admissions policy. The exact dates for admission are laid down by the London Borough of Sutton and their policies are available here.
All pupils start their Reception year at the Hackbridge Corner site and remain educated on that site until the end of Year 2. For Years 3 & 4, they move to the London Road site. They return to the Hackbridge Corner site for Years 5 & 6.
Pupils at either school site access the facilities and resources on either school site during each year, e.g. the school playing field on the London Road site or the Sports Hall on our Hackbridge Corner site, for special events.
Children are admitted into Reception in the September of the academic year in which they will have their fifth birthday.
Children who attend our nursery have to make a separate starting school application to join Reception, as there is no automatic transfer.
Applications for Reception places must be made online to the local authority Admissions Department. For Sutton residents, this can be found at www.sutton.gov.uk/admissions.
Applications outside of the usual starting school point in Reception are referred to as 'in-year' applications, regardless of the time of year that you want your child to join us.
If we have vacancies in-year across any year group from Reception to Year 6 in the school, we may be able to admit children 'in-year'.
Applications for in-year entry need to be made centrally to the local authority Admissions Department.
Sutton Admissions Team can be contacted on 020 8770 5000 or online at www.sutton.gov.uk/admissions.
On their website, Sutton Admissions also has an online vacancy checker so that parents/carers can see whether there are currently vacancies in a particular year group.
Please note that the school does not manage their own waiting lists for places in Reception to Year 6 - these are managed centrally by the London Borough of Sutton and so any enquiries about place availability need to be directed to them.
When children begin Reception, the cohort is divided between four classes. Where information about a child’s pre-school or day nursery has been included in their ‘starting school’ application, we will contact that setting so that we can plan for their needs when they start school.
It is school policy to place twins/triplets/quads in separate classes from when they join us in Reception, or at any other point of joining us, including if and when we mix classes across the year group.
We do not have a fixed policy on mixing classes each year, but it is in the best interests of all children that we consider the make-up of classes on an annual basis in order that their quality of learning is maximised and it is therefore policy for us to look at each year group in the summer term to decide whether any remixing would be beneficial. Parents are always notified where we are considering this for any year group and we would like to reassure you that this is never a decision which is taken lightly.
If your child begins at a normal transfer point then you will be invited to attend one of our intake meetings where the process of ‘starting nursery’ or ‘starting school’ will be explained.
If your child joins us as an 'in-year' entrant where any in-year vacancies occur, we will invite you to an Admissions meeting before they join the school. We will also ensure that your child spends some time with a member of our Inclusion Team when they join us. This will help them to settle in quickly and ensure that they have several members of the school team who they can turn to in their first few days.
Tours for prospective parents are run fortnightly by the Senior Leadership Team.
Please see our School Tours/Open Days page for details of the times and dates when you can visit the school - places on school tours can be booked by telephoning the School Office on 020 8647 7974 or emailing office@hackbridgeprimary.sutton.sch.uk .
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