Applying for a nursery place in a Solihull school

Offer day ~ 25 April

Accepting your child's place

On offer day you can login to your account to accept the place you have been offered.  You have 2 weeks to accept the place online, so if the website is busy you can try again later - you will not lose the place.

Declining the place offered

If you do not want the nursery please that has been offered you must email admissions@solihull.gov.uk telling us your child's name, date of birth and the nursery they will be going to, if any.

If your child was born between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009 you can apply for 15 hours free nursery education in a Solihull school, starting in September 2012.

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.

Timetable for the process:

You can apply online for up to four schools, wherever you live.  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.

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 online at www.solihull.gov.uk/onlinemaps.  Living in the catchment area does not guarantee that you will be given a place, but you will have a high priority.

Primary and infant schools

Find out more about Solihull schools.

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

You will see the schools' contact details and their admission criteria.  You can contact the school and ask for a prospectus and when you can visit.

If a school receives more applications than places available the admission criteria are used to decide who is offered a place.

Supplementary information

Find out if the school you are applying for needs any supplementary information and send it to the school.  For example, some faith schools need you to fill in an extra form, or provide a certificate of baptism or proof of your attendance at church.  You can find out more on the school pages.

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 and 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.

Late applications

Applications received after 2 December 2011 will be late.

• Find out more about late applications

What happen after you have applied?

• Find out what happens next