William Byrd Primary Academy Nursery Review

Language and inclusion give William Byrd's nursery its wider school context. The provision belongs to William Byrd Primary Academy in Harlington, Hayes, on Victoria Lane. The school aims to support English alongside children's home languages, a useful emphasis for families raising multilingual children.

Ofsted graded early years provision Good at the inspection of 17 and 18 October 2023. That judgement covers the school's early years provision, rather than a separately inspected nursery.

Language learning is a school-wide priority. Teaching uses objects, pictures and demonstrations to help children understand new vocabulary, with repeated opportunities to practise words and check understanding. For a child learning English, those concrete prompts can make an unfamiliar instruction easier to understand.

The school's approach also treats home languages as an asset. Its aim is for children to develop English while continuing to develop their own language, giving multilingual families a clear starting point for conversations about their child's learning.

Joining begins with a school induction programme. Where needed, staff contact a child's previous setting to gather information and arrange support promptly. Relevant safeguarding information is passed between settings confidentially. That gives families a reason to share existing support arrangements before their child starts.

For children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), the school uses an Assess-Plan-Do-Review cycle, reviewing support each term. A One Page Profile records a child's strengths, difficulties and strategies to help them learn; a provision map explains the additional help. Parents contribute to the profile, so their knowledge of the child forms part of planning.

Support involves the class teacher and the SENDCo, with outside expertise including occupational therapy and speech and language therapy. Families can raise concerns with the class teacher first. For further SEND enquiries, the contact is inclusion@williambyrd.school.

Parent contact extends beyond formal reviews. SEND coffee afternoons take place half-termly, while email, phone conversations and informal meetings provide other ways to discuss progress. These are school-wide arrangements, giving nursery families a route into the wider support team.

Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through the normal admissions route and meet the relevant deadline; choosing the nursery should remain a decision about the nursery itself.

For the September 2026 Reception intake, applications went directly to the Civic Centre in Uxbridge or through the online application route. That intake is now past. Keep the nursery application and the later school-place application as separate tasks.

Nursery applications go directly to the school and can be submitted online. The admissions team can also provide a paper form. Contact admissions@williambyrd.school or telephone 01895 462 394 for nursery application enquiries.

Eligible families may receive up to 30 hours of free nursery time. Eligibility matters: this is a conditional entitlement, rather than the same allocation for every child.

If a child has an Education Health and Care Plan, the nursery application process directs families to the SEN team at the local authority maintaining that plan, because a different statutory admissions process applies. Contact that team before proceeding with the ordinary application.