Please note: we currently have no spaces available in our Nursery for the remainder of this Academic year (2025/26). 

Exploring, questioning and experimenting opportunities are abundant in our well resourced classroom and outdoor learning space within our Nursery.

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and support your child to master the skills they need in the earliest stages of their development.

The areas of learning are:

• communication and language
• physical development
• personal, social and emotional development
• literacy
• mathematics
• understanding the world
• expressive arts and design

About us

Wantage Primary Academy is a publicly funded independent school. Nursery classes at the Academy admit children aged between two and four years old. The admission number is 26 full time equivalent places.

• A part-time place consists of 15 hours per week (an offer will be made for either a morning or an afternoon place). 
• A full-time place consists of 30 hours per week 9:30 - 3:30
• Places are offered for 38 weeks per year
• Sessions run Monday – Friday from 9:30–12:30 (morning sessions) or 12:30 – 3:30 (afternoon sessions).

We offer places as a combination of part and full-time places for 3 and 4-year-olds as a mixture of 15 hour-per week places and 30 hour-per week places, depending on age and eligibility.

A few 2-year-old spaces (for Rising threes) are also available for those with funded 2-year-old codes.

Start dates

Our main intake is the start of the academic year (September), from which point we aim to reach capacity as quickly as possible for economic reasons. Once full for the academic year, space will only be available should there be a change to an existing place, e.g., a child leaves or once children reach the age that the ratios mean places arise

We will admit 3 and 4-year-olds in the Autumn term in the first instance. Offers of places for the Spring and Summer terms will only be made if places are available throughout the year. 2-year-old places will be available for children starting in the Autumn term only and rising threes (children turning 3 before December 31^st) will be prioritised (see oversubscription criteria).

The Nursery terms are as follows:

Autumn Term: September 1^st - December 31st

Spring Term: January 1^st - March 31st

Summer Term: April 1^st - August 31st

When a parent/carer contacts WPA’s Nursery enquiring about a place for their child, they are given all the relevant information they require and informed of whether there is currently a place available for their child. If there is not a space in that term available, parents are entitled to reapply for the next term/ following year.

Once the child is registered and a suitable place is available, the Office team, will contact the parent/carer concerned to offer a place and confirm details.

 

Uniform

We ask that children wear a basic uniform of school  polo shirt with logo and school sweatshirt with logo with your own choice of leg wear. Children should have trainers for indoors and be provided with wellies for outside (these need to be available every day).  If you would like your child to wear the full school uniform they may do so .

Apply for a place in nursery

Click here to apply for a place in our nursery.