St Paul's C of E Primary School & Nursery

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Nursery Information

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Nursery Admissions

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Fees

Funded places are prioritised. However, where parents top up these hours, the fee structure is: 

2 Year Olds: £7 per hour 

3/4 Year Olds: £6.50 per hour

These fees will be reviewed annually. The next review will be in December 2025 with any changes beginning in April 2026.

 Nursery Admissions Policy

Surrey County Council has delegated the admission of nursery pupils to the Governing Body of St Paul’s CofE Primary School & Nursery. Parents wishing to apply for a place should complete and submit the Application Form directly to the school for consideration.

 

The school will try as far as possible to inform parents by email/letter with the outcome of the application the term before the admission is due to take place, although this cannot be guaranteed.  

If a place is offered the parent must accept the place by the date shown on the letter, otherwise the place will be offered to another child.

If places are available, a child can be admitted into the Nursery the term after they turn 2. St Paul’s CofE Primary School Nursery is a term time only nursery and offer places for 15 or 30 hours St Paul’s CofE Primary School Criteria for 3- and 4-year-olds:

 

 

Limited spaces are available for 2-year-olds, however top priority will be given to those children who qualify for FEET Funding (15 hours per week).  In event of over subscription, applications will be considered in accordance with the same criteria as 3- & 4-year-olds followed by nearest applicant to school. 

 

Please note that admission to St Paul’s CofE Primary School Nursery does not guarantee admission to the Reception class of the main school. 

 

Upon receipt of an offer of a place in the Nursery, parents/carers will have 10 working days to accept their place. On the 11th working day, the offer will be withdrawn and offered to the next person on waiting list if it has not been accepted.

Once you accept an offer, your child must be on role at nursery within 10 working days.

 

Notes

  1. Looked after, previously looked after and internationally adopted previously looked after children

Looked after children, previously looked after children, and internationally adopted previously looked after children LAC, PLAC and IAPLAC will receive the top priority for a place. 

LAC, PLAC and IAPLAC are considered to be:

→ children who are in the care of a local authority or provided with accommodation by a local authority in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989, e.g. fostered or living in a children’s home, at the time an application for a school is made;

→ children who have previously been in the care of a local authority or provided with accommodation by a local authority in accordance with Section 22 of the Children Act 1989 and who have left that care through adoption, a child arrangements order (in accordance with Section 8 of the Children Act 1989 and as amended by the Children and Families Act 2014) or special guardianship order (in accordance with Section 14A of the Children Act 1989); 

→ children who appear (to the admission authority) to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted. 

A child will be regarded as having been in state care outside of England if they were accommodated by a public authority, a religious organisation, or any other provider of care whose sole purpose is to benefit society. The parent/carer will need to provide evidence to demonstrate that the child was in state care outside England and left that care as a result of being adopted. 

Places will be allocated under this criterion when places are first offered at a school and the local authority may also ask schools to admit over their published admission number at other times under this criterion.

 

  1. Exceptional social/medical need

Occasionally there will be a very small number of children for whom exceptional social or medical circumstances apply which will warrant a placement at this school. The exceptional social or medical circumstances might relate to either the child or the parent/carer. Supporting evidence from a professional is required such as a doctor and/or consultant for medical cases or a social worker, health visitor, housing officer, the police or probation officer for other social circumstances. This evidence must confirm the circumstances of the case and must set out why the child should attend this school and why no other school could meet the child’s needs. 

Providing evidence does not guarantee that a child will be given priority at this school and in each case a decision will be made based on the merits of the case and whether the evidence demonstrates that a placement should be made at this school above any other. 

Common medical conditions and allergies can usually be supported in all mainstream schools, therefore priority under the school's exceptional medical criterion would not normally be given for these. In addition, routine child-minding arrangements would not normally be considered to be an exceptional social reason for placement at this school. 

Places may be allocated under this criterion when places are first offered at the school and the local authority may also ask the school to admit over its published admission number at other times under this criterion. 

 

  1. Siblings

A sibling will be considered to be a brother or sister (that is, another child of the same parents, whether living at the same address or not), a half-brother or half-sister or a stepbrother or stepsister or an adoptive or foster sibling, living as part of the same family unit at the same address. 

A child will be given sibling priority if they have a sibling on roll at St Paul’s CofE Primary School & Nursery and that sibling is still expected to be on roll at school at the time of the child’s admission. This will apply both at the initial allocation of places and when prioritising the waiting list. Giving sibling priority has the effect of maximising the opportunity for children in the same family to be educated at the same school or at a school which operates shared sibling priority.

 

  1. Any other children

 

If there is oversubscription to any of the above criteria, priority will be given on the basis of nearness to school, measured in a straight line from the child’s house.

 

  1. Home address

The child’s home address excludes any business or childminder’s address and must be the child’s normal place of residence. It also excludes any relative’s address unless the child lives at that address as their normal place of residence. Where the child is subject to a child arrangements order and that order stipulates that the child will live with one parent/carer more than the other, the address to be used will be the one where the child is expected to live for the majority of the time. For other children, the address to be used will be the address where the child lives the majority of the time. In other cases, where the child spends an equal time between their parents/carers, it will be up to the parent/carers to agree which address to use. Where a child spends their time equally between their parents/carers and they cannot agree on who should make the application, we will accept an application from the parent/carer who is registered for child benefit. If neither parent is registered for child benefit, we will accept the application from the parent/carer whose address is registered with the child’s current school or nursery. 

We will not generally accept a temporary address if the main carer of the child still possesses or rents a property that has previously been used as a home address, nor will we accept a temporary address if we believe it has been used solely or mainly to obtain a school place when an alternative address is still available to that child. 

The address to be used for the initial allocation of places to Nursery will be the child’s address at the closing date for application. Changes of address may be considered in accordance with Surrey’s coordinated scheme if there are exceptional reasons behind the change, such as if a family has just moved to the area. The address to be used for waiting lists, after the initial allocation, will be the child’s current address. Any offer of a place on the basis of address is conditional upon the child living at the appropriate address on the relevant date. Applicants have a responsibility to notify the school and Surrey County Council of any change of address. 

 

  1. Tie breaker and the admission of twins, triplets, other multiple births or siblings born in the same academic year

Where two or more children share a priority for a place, e.g., where two children live equidistant from a school, random allocation will be used to determine which child should be given priority. 

In the case of multiple births, where children have equal priority for a place, random allocation will be used to determine which child should be given priority. If after the allocation one or more places can be offered but there are not sufficient places for all of them, each child will be offered a place. 

 

  1. Waiting lists

Where there are more children than places available, a waiting list will operate according to the oversubscription criteria for the school without regard to the date the application was received or when a child’s name was added to the waiting list.           


 

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