We hold a meeting for new parents in the summer term, and visits are made to other nursery schools and playgroups. We arrange times for new children to visit the classroom with their parents to meet their teacher and other class members. Children do not start full time in Reception straight away. We find that by introducing a group of children each week to full time school we are able to help them make the transition successfully. It also helps staff get to know the children individually and to do the base line assessment that we carry out in the first few weeks.
All children are full time by the autumn half term.
If we are over-subscribed in either Nursery or Reception we follow the LEA's admissions policy in deciding who to offer places to. Children who live in the catchment area of the school. This is a defined list of streets. Children who do not live in the catchment area but who have a brother or sister already at the school. Other children chosen by age for the Nursery children and by the distance from home to the school for the Reception children.