NURSERY ADMISSIONS SEPTEMBER 2024
Nursery Admissions for September 2024 are now closed.
Please contact Mrs Channa ([email protected]) if you would like to make an application.
Please contact Mrs Channa ([email protected]) if you would like to make an application.
Hitchin Partnership Admission Information for Local Authority Nursery Schools and Nursery Classes Admissions for 2024/25
Nursery settings operate their own admission process.
Local authority nursery schools and classes within Hitchin form part of the Hitchin Partnership. In order to provide consistency and simplify the process for parents, the partnership has agreed a timeline for admissions and a set of over subscription criteria.
Hitchin Partnership Timeline for Maintained Nursery Schools and Nursery Classes 2024/25
Autumn 2023
Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes to make nursery admission information available on their websites
Wednesday 31st January 2024
Applications open via school’s websites for Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes (online applications preferred)
Friday 8th March 2024
Applications close for Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes
Wednesday 27th March 2024
Offers made to parents (via the same method as application was made)
Friday 19th April 2024
Deadline for parents to accept/reject places
Continued interest offers will be made after this date.
Children will be offered a nursery place to start in the autumn term of the academic year they turn 4 (falling between 1st September to 31st August).
For September 2024 entry, children need to be born between 1st September 2020 and 31st August 2021.
At Oughton, we have 30 nursery places, providing 15 hours of free Nursery education every morning.
We hold an information meeting for Parents in the summer term. Children are invited to visit and to attend a couple of sessions before they start and staff will arrange home visits prior to your child starting.
The morning Nursery session is from 8.45-11.45
The nursery is an integral part of the school. A separate application is needed from Nursery to main school.
Applications for our Nursery class must be made directly to the school but please note that Primary admissions are managed by Hertfordshire County Council (HCC). A separate application is needed to move to the main school and allocation of a Nursery place does not guarantee your child a place in our Reception class. More information on applying for a school place within Hertfordshire can be found at the HCC website on http://www.hertsdirect.org/admissions.
Should there be more applications than places, an agreed over subscription criteria will be followed. Please see the oversubscription criteria below. If an application is unsuccessful, you may request to go onto the nursery’s continuing interest list and as a space arises, the criteria will be applied again.
Hitchin Partnership Over Subscription Criteria for Maintained Nursery Schools and Classes for the School Year 2024/25
Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs which names the school will be allocated a place in accordance with section 324 of the Education Act 1996. Schools will also admit children with an EHC (Education, Health and Care) Plan that names the school.
Parents may state their preference as to which nursery class, school or centre they would like their child to attend in the years leading up to the child’s fourth birthday. However, if there are not enough places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:
a) Children looked after and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or a special guardianship order).
b) A child ‘at risk’ (or the sibling of a child ‘at risk’) who is the subject of an inter-agency child protection plan.
c) Other applicants where the following criteria are considered to determine priorities:
1) Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school.
2) Children who have a sibling at the school (including, if an infant school, a sibling at the link junior school) at the time of application, unless the sibling is in the last year of the normal age range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age range’ is the designated range for which the school provides.
3) Any other children.
Proof of documentation to support any of the criteria above will be required.
If more children qualify under a particular rule than there are places available, a tiebreak will be used by applying the next rule to those children. If more children qualify under criterion 2 than there are places available, priority will be given to those who live nearest to the nursery as measured in a straight line, using Google maps. Where there is a need for a tie-breaker where two different addresses measure the same distance from a school, in the case of a block of flats for example, the lower door number will be deemed nearest as logically this will be on the ground floor and therefore closer. If there are two identical addresses of separate applicants, the tie break will be random.
Nursery settings operate their own admission process.
Local authority nursery schools and classes within Hitchin form part of the Hitchin Partnership. In order to provide consistency and simplify the process for parents, the partnership has agreed a timeline for admissions and a set of over subscription criteria.
Hitchin Partnership Timeline for Maintained Nursery Schools and Nursery Classes 2024/25
Autumn 2023
Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes to make nursery admission information available on their websites
Wednesday 31st January 2024
Applications open via school’s websites for Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes (online applications preferred)
Friday 8th March 2024
Applications close for Hitchin maintained nursery schools and nursery classes
Wednesday 27th March 2024
Offers made to parents (via the same method as application was made)
Friday 19th April 2024
Deadline for parents to accept/reject places
Continued interest offers will be made after this date.
Children will be offered a nursery place to start in the autumn term of the academic year they turn 4 (falling between 1st September to 31st August).
For September 2024 entry, children need to be born between 1st September 2020 and 31st August 2021.
At Oughton, we have 30 nursery places, providing 15 hours of free Nursery education every morning.
We hold an information meeting for Parents in the summer term. Children are invited to visit and to attend a couple of sessions before they start and staff will arrange home visits prior to your child starting.
The morning Nursery session is from 8.45-11.45
The nursery is an integral part of the school. A separate application is needed from Nursery to main school.
Applications for our Nursery class must be made directly to the school but please note that Primary admissions are managed by Hertfordshire County Council (HCC). A separate application is needed to move to the main school and allocation of a Nursery place does not guarantee your child a place in our Reception class. More information on applying for a school place within Hertfordshire can be found at the HCC website on http://www.hertsdirect.org/admissions.
Should there be more applications than places, an agreed over subscription criteria will be followed. Please see the oversubscription criteria below. If an application is unsuccessful, you may request to go onto the nursery’s continuing interest list and as a space arises, the criteria will be applied again.
Hitchin Partnership Over Subscription Criteria for Maintained Nursery Schools and Classes for the School Year 2024/25
Children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs which names the school will be allocated a place in accordance with section 324 of the Education Act 1996. Schools will also admit children with an EHC (Education, Health and Care) Plan that names the school.
Parents may state their preference as to which nursery class, school or centre they would like their child to attend in the years leading up to the child’s fourth birthday. However, if there are not enough places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:
a) Children looked after and children who were looked after, but ceased to be so because they were adopted (or became subject to a child arrangements order or a special guardianship order).
b) A child ‘at risk’ (or the sibling of a child ‘at risk’) who is the subject of an inter-agency child protection plan.
c) Other applicants where the following criteria are considered to determine priorities:
1) Children for whom it can be demonstrated that they have a particular medical or social need to go to the school.
2) Children who have a sibling at the school (including, if an infant school, a sibling at the link junior school) at the time of application, unless the sibling is in the last year of the normal age range of the school. Note: the ‘normal age range’ is the designated range for which the school provides.
3) Any other children.
Proof of documentation to support any of the criteria above will be required.
If more children qualify under a particular rule than there are places available, a tiebreak will be used by applying the next rule to those children. If more children qualify under criterion 2 than there are places available, priority will be given to those who live nearest to the nursery as measured in a straight line, using Google maps. Where there is a need for a tie-breaker where two different addresses measure the same distance from a school, in the case of a block of flats for example, the lower door number will be deemed nearest as logically this will be on the ground floor and therefore closer. If there are two identical addresses of separate applicants, the tie break will be random.