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Welcome to Early Years at Botley!

Our Early Years setting is a vibrant, playful, and nurturing environment where children thrive. We offer a wide range of engaging indoor and outdoor activities, including painting, playdough, sand and water play, construction toys, role play, stories and rhymes, singing and dancing, climbing, mark-making, and number and problem-solving activities.
 

Our dedicated and highly trained staff get to know each child individually, providing personalised learning, development, and care. We carefully observe and assess children's interests and progress within the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

We highly value our strong relationships with parents, which are supported through our online learning journal, Tapestry. Tapestry allows us to share observations and celebrate children's learning with you, and you can also contribute your own observations, comments, and photos from home.

Meet Our Reception Team:

Virtual Tour:

(Coming soon)

School Visits and Tours:

We hold several open events throughout the year. Details of our upcoming open events for 2024/25 are available here: [Advert for Open Events 2024] 

Next parent tour - Wednesday 14th May 2025 3.30pm

Key Information:

• [School Prospectus]
• [Virtual parent meeting PowerPoint]

Transition into Nursery:

To register your interest in a Nursery place, please complete an enrolment form (available below) and return it to our school office. In the term your child turns three, we will contact you to confirm their place. You will receive a welcome letter with information about 15-hour and 30-hour funding, as well as an induction pack.

The induction pack contains details about the school and Nursery, including session times. You will also receive details about your child's key person, a date for a one-to-one meeting, and dates for our "come and play" sessions.

Transition into Reception:

Once your child has been offered a Reception place, you will receive a welcome letter outlining summer term events and an induction pack. The induction pack contains information about the school and Reception, including details about the school day, uniform, etc. You will also receive details about your child’s class teacher and a date for a one-to-one meeting.

During the summer term, we will contact your child's current Nursery/Pre-School and arrange visits to meet your child in their current setting. We will invite you and your child to our transition days, where they can spend time in the Reception environment, meet the staff, and get to know the other children starting in their class.

Supporting Your Child's Transition to Reception:

• [Steps-to-starting-school poster]

Further Information:

Please visit the Early Years section of our website for further information.

Admissions Arrangements