Applying for a nursery place in a Solihull school

The application process starts in October 2012

Catchment areas

If you live in Solihull we recommend that you include your catchment-area school among your preferences, even if it is your lowest preference.  You can find out your catchment-area school using Online Maps. Living in the catchment area does not guarantee that you will be given a place, but you will have a high priority.  You can measure the distance from your home to a Solihull school using Online Maps.

Primary and infant schools

For more information about primary and infant schools use the drop-down menu below.  You will see the schools' contact details and their admission criteria.  You should check the admission criteria to see if you need to supply any supplementary information to the school, for example a baptismal certificate.  You can ask for a prospectus and when you can visit.

Balsall Common Primary School Bentley Heath Church of England Primary School Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Bishop Wilson Church of England Primary School Blossomfield Infant and Nursery School Burman Infant School Castle Bromwich Infant School Cheswick Green Primary School Coleshill Heath School Cranmore Infant School Damson Wood Nursery and Infant School Daylesford Infant School Dickens Heath Community Primary School Dorridge Nursery and Infant School Fordbridge Community Primary School George Fentham Endowed School Greswold Primary School Hatchford Brook Junior and Infant School Hockley Heath Primary School Kineton Green Primary School Kingshurst Primary School Knowle Church of England Primary School Lady Katherine Leveson Church of England School Langley Primary School Marston Green Infant School Meriden Church of England Primary School Mill Lodge Primary School Monkspath Junior and Infant School Oak Cottage Primary School Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School Peterbrook Primary School Smith's Wood Community Primary School St Alphege Church of England Infant and Nursery School St Andrew's Catholic Primary School St Anne's Catholic Primary School St Anthony's Catholic Primary School St Augustine's Catholic Primary School St George and St Teresa Catholic Primary School St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School St Mary and St Margaret's Church of England Aided Primary School St Patrick's C Of E Primary Academy Streetsbrook Infant and Nursery School Tidbury Green School Ulverley School Valley Infant School Windy Arbor Junior and Infant School Woodlands Infant School Yew Tree Primary School Yorkswood Primary School

Is your application realistic?

You can work out the priority your child's application will be given and find out if he or she would have been offered a place in previous years.   You can apply online for a nursery place in up to four schools, wherever you live.  Nursery places are for 15 hours free education in a Solihull school starting in September 2013.  You can include faith schools and academies in Solihull.  You must rank the schools in order of preference.  The school you name first should be the one you would most like your child to go to.   Getting a place in a nursery does not mean your child will get a place in reception at the same school the following year.  Most schools do not give priority to children who have been in the nursery.  More children apply for reception which means it is harder to get a place.

Exceptional circumstances

Priority is given, at some Solihull schools, to children with exceptional social or medical reasons.  If you think there may be exceptional circumstances find out more or phone School Admissions.

Nursery sessions

Some schools offer a choice of sessions.  After you have been offered a place, the school will ask you what sessions you prefer.  Some schools have facilities on site called "wrap around".  You can use this with a nursery place to make all-day care.

Moving house and proving your address / changing your application / applying late

Information about moving house and what you need to provide as proof, changing your application after it has been submitted and applying after the closing date.

What happen after you have applied?

Information about accepting your place and waiting lists.