Nursery Admissions

Nursery Admissions Contact

Contact: Miss S Bowyer
Telephone: 0208 778 4742
Email: admissions@harrisprimarycrystalpalace.org.uk
Address: Harris Primary Academy Crystal Palace, Malcolm Road, London, SE20 8RH

Nursery Class

The Nursery at Crystal Palace is an Early Years provision with warm and welcoming staff, that are a dedicated team of individuals working together to promote a wide and varied Early Years provision. Our highly qualified and experienced staff offer the children a learning through play based experience as required for the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

Our Nursery class offers 52 places (26 each session). This is a mixture of full time (30 hours) and part time (15 hours) places, funded. Children can start in Nursery the term after their third birthday, if places are available.

At present all three and four year olds are entitled to 15 hours of free childcare per week, up to 38 weeks per year. The government has also introduced an extended 15 hours of free childcare per week - 30 hours in total for 38 weeks per year, for those families that are eligible.

The hours for the Nursery are as follows: Morning sessions 8.30am - 11.30am, afternoon sessions 12.30pm - 3.30pm.

We also offer 8.30am - 3.30pm for those that qualify for the 30 hours free child care. 

To find out if you are eligible for funding you will need to apply via the link www.bromley.gov.uk/30hours. If you are entitled to 30 hours funding we will charge a fee of £25 per week to cover the extra hour per day. All full time places are subject to 5 days a week. 

Eligibility for the additional free entitlement will include households where:

• All parents (whether two-parent families or lone parents) are working and earning the equivalent of 16 hours a week at the National Minimum or Living Wage (includes income received from tax credits or Universal Credit) and/or:
• One/both parent/s is away on leave (parental, maternal etc.)
• One/both parent/s is on Statutory Sick Pay
• Parents on zero-hours contracts will be eligible, as are those who are registered as self-employed
• One parent is employed and the other parent has either: substantial caring responsibilities and/or disability; is a foster-carer with their own three- and four- year old children
• Parents who are in training will not be eligible as they can receive other Government support
• There is an income cap. If one parent's income exceeds £100K the household will not be eligible

Please note - for those parents not entitled to the 30 hours funded childcare (extended 15 hours free child care), we can offer a paid full time place, at a cost of £100 per week, payable in advance. All full time places are subject to 5 days per week, 38 weeks per year.

For more information, please visit: www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

 

Admissions Procedure

Applications for a place in our Nursery can be made directly to the school, by collecting an application form from the school office and returning it directly to the school once completed. Alternatively you can download a copy of the Nursery Application Form and returning to us either via email using the following email address admissions@harrisprimarycrystalpalace.org.uk or the school office. 

We can assist you with the eligibility criteria for the universal 15 hours free child care and extended 15 hours free child care (30 hours).

Nursery Criteria:
 

• Children looked after, or who have an allocated social worker who has provided written support of the application
• Children who are recommend for a place at that school by the Disability or Locality TAC (Team around the Child)
• Children with professionally supported educational, medical or social needs. When deciding whether a child has an educational, medical or social need, the Principal will consider the child’s needs or circumstances, and supporting evidence from other professionals
• Children with a brother or sister currently attending our school, and who will still be at school when the child is admitted
• Children who live nearest to the school on the basis of distance between the child’s home and the school, measured by a straight line