How to Apply - Nursery School
We are very proud of our outstanding nursery provision. If you would like your child to join our nursery in September 2025, this page gives you all the information you need to make an application.
Applications to join our nursery in September 2025 open on Monday 6th January 2025 and close on Monday 31st March 2025. Nursery applications must be made directly to the academy. Please download the application form or collect a paper copy from the Primary reception desk.
Please submit your completed application form in person, at the Primary reception desk, as we do not accept emailed applications. You will also need to provide original documents for proof of ID and address.
Our full Admissions Policies can be downloaded from the Admissions page of our website. If you have any queries please email info@harrischobham.org.uk. Thank you.
Would you like to visit?
Open Day tours for the nursery will be held in February 2025. If you would like to come and visit our nursery then please contact us and we can arrange a visit for you. We welcome visitors to our outstanding nursery provision so please email primaryinfo@chobhamacademy.org.uk to express your interest. Our teachers and students look forward to welcoming you.
Take a tour - with Mr Roberts, Early Years Phase Leader
What age will my child start the nursery?
If your child was born in between 1st September 2021 and 31st August 2022 then they will be due to start nursery in September 2025. Please do not apply unless your child will be three years old before September 2025 as the application will be rejected.
If the child turns three years old in the term after September 2025, then they are due to start nursery the following September (2026).
How many hours will my child attend?
The Academy nursery has 52 full-time equivalent pupils. The nursery school will be split into two sessions (morning and afternoon). That means 52 applicants will be accommodated in each session in a mixture of full-time and part-time places.
- Morning session: 8.15am-11.30am
- Afternoon session: 12.00pm-3.15pm
- Full-time session: 8.15am-3.15pm
15 hours eligibility = 3 hours per day, 5 days per week
30 hours eligibility = 6 hours per day, 5 days per week
For those parents not entitled to the additional 30 hours funded childcare, we can offer a paid full-time place, at a cost of £75 per week charged half termly, paid in advance of the half term starting. All full-time places are subject to 5 days a week
Admission to the nursery does not guarantee admission to the academy's primary provision, and a separate application must be made for transfer from the nursery provision to the primary provision.
Nursery over-subscription criteria
If under subscribed, all applicants will be admitted. If oversubscribed, the following criteria will apply in the order of priority shown.
- Looked after children or previously looked after children
- Children with Education Health Care (EHC) plans where the school is named in the plan.
- Children of staff at the school where the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made.
- Children who, on the date of admission, will have an older sibling (i.e. a natural brother or sister, or a half brother or sister, or a legally adopted brother or sister or half-brother or sister, or step brother or sister who will be living with them at the same address at the date of their entry to the Academy) in years R-6 of the Academy. Proof of the sibling relationship will be required (short birth certificates).
- The remaining places will be offered to children who live nearest to the front gates of the Primary phase site of the Academy that is the distance from the Academy entrance in a straight line. Proof of residence will be required (council tax bill, utility bill).
