Admission to nursery school

Nursery education - summary

The Council provides nursery education for children beginning in the September following their 3rd birthday.

Council-run nurseries

There are nursery units in all of our infant and primary schools. The units offer five half-day sessions a week for children from the September after their third birthday. A session is two-and-a-half hours, either in the morning or afternoon. Each nursery has one qualified member of staff for every 10 children.

A number of Solihull schools have extra childcare facilities on site, either to 'top up' a session or offer full-time childcare. This extra care is called 'wrap-around provision'.

When to apply

Children born between 1 September 2005 and 31 August 2006 can start nursery in September 2009. You must apply for your child's nursery place using our nursery application form. If you live outside Solihull you can apply for a place at a Solihull nursery. The forms and a booklet will be available from August 2008. You can phone the School Admissions Team or download the information.

Timetable:

You can view a list of all infant and primary schools in Solihull on this site.

Additional information is available on types of schools, how many preferences and how places are offered.

Private nursery provision

You can search for a privately run nursery online at http://www.childcarelink.gov.uk/whitebox/mapsearch.asp?cisid=5039&mapid=522.

 

How do we measure the distance from a home to a school?

If an application for a place at any Solihull school needs a distance measurement this is calculated by our admissions system using ADDRESS-POINT. ADDRESS-POINT® provides a national grid co-ordinate and a unique reference for each postal address in Great Britain. The grid reference is provided to a resolution of 0.1 metre (10cm). The accuracy of each ADDRESS-POINT is such that each point will fall within the addressed building. ADDRESS-POINT is created by matching information from Ordnance Survey digital map databases with more than 27 million addresses recorded in the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF).

Admission arrangements for voluntary-aided schools

You can apply for a voluntary-aided school on our application form. Each voluntary-aided school has its own admissions criteria. This will normally take account of your religion and whether you go to church.

The Schools Adjudicator has carried out a scrutiny of all admission arrangements for 2009. As a result some schools have made slight amendments to the admission arrangements published in the Primary Education 2009 booklet. The correct admission arrangements for 2009, for all schools who are their own admissions authority, can be seen on this site.

Contact Details

If you want more information or you need help or advice about applying for a school place, please contact the School Admissions Team.

School Admissions Team
Education and Children's Services
P O Box 20
Council House
Solihull B91 9QU

Email: admissions@solihull.gov.uk
Telephone: 0121 704 6693
Fax: 0121 704 6653

Office hours:

Monday - Thursday : 8.45am - 5.20pm
Friday : 8.45am - 4.30pm