COME AND JOIN OUR
Nursery
Weston Infant Academy provides 30 hours per week Nursery provision (Monday – Friday – 9.00am – 3.00pm daily).
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If you have any queries or wish to take a tour around our Nursery provision or around our Infant or Junior sites then please do not hesitate to contact us on 01782 319607 and we can arrange a time to show you around. We look forward to meeting you!
If you wish to apply for a place within our Nursery setting then please click on this link: Nursery admissions | Nursery admissions | Stoke-on-Trent
Weston Infant Academy offer 30 HOURS free placements for children aged 3/4
If you wish to access the free 30 hour childcare funding for working parents and your child will be attending our Nursery, then please provide the school with your code.
“Pupils enjoy coming to Weston Infant Academy school because they love learning new things. Pupils are kind and welcoming. They feel happy and safe. If they feel worried or sad, they know that adults will help them.”
Ofsted, March 2022
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT
Joining Our Nursery
All but three of the primary schools in Stoke-on-Trent have nursery provision attached. In addition, Stoke on Trent has six nursery schools.
Children aged three years by the 31 August are able to attend a nursery class or school in September. From September, 2014, this will consist of the statutory provision of 15 hours per week, with access to additional hours based on specific criteria which are being developed. (Weston Infant Academy will publish our Nursery provision offer on the website).
Attendance at school is not a requirement at this age but is at the discretion of parents until a child becomes five years old, then s/he must start school in the following term.
Where there are more applications for a nursery setting than there are places the following priorities will be used, in order, to allocate places:
1. Children in the care of the local authority and children who were previously looked after but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a residence order or special guardianship order).
2. Children living within the catchment who have an elder brother or sister at the school who will still be attending at the time of admission (or at the linked junior school in the case of infant schools).
3. Other children living within the catchment.
4. Children living outside the catchment who have an elder brother or sister at the school who will still be attending at the time of admission (or at the linked junior school in the case of infant schools).
5. Children who live nearest to the school as determined by a straight line measurement from the front door of the child’s home address to the main entrance of the school.
1.3 Once the class is full a waiting list based on these criteria will be held until the end of September of that academic year.
1.4 Attendance at a particular nursery setting will not guarantee admission to a reception class at the same school.
1.5 As nursery education is not compulsory there is no right of appeal against the refusal of a place. However, every effort will be made to accommodate the wishes of parents.