Nursery at Yeading Infant and Nursery School

Paint, clay and Bee-Bots give this nursery a practical character: children take part in the school's art programme and have access to technology from the nursery stage. The provision belongs to Yeading Infant and Nursery School on Carlyon Road in Hayes. Morning and afternoon sessions give families two distinct parts of the day to plan around.

Art involves making, observing and talking. Materials include clay, pastels and wool, while children discuss their creations and make changes to them. That connects using their hands with explaining their ideas. The summer Take One Picture Project includes nursery children: a picture selected by the National Art Gallery becomes the starting point for work across curriculum areas. Parents can see the resulting exhibition at the end of the summer term.

Technology also has a place in early learning. The school's Early Years Foundation Stage provision, the framework for this stage of education, includes opportunities to use digital devices. Children can work with Bee-Bots, large iPads and Chromebooks in classrooms and the ICT suite. Touchscreens, a mouse and a keyboard give them different ways to practise small hand movements, alongside creative tasks and problem-solving. These are concrete resources, rather than simply a promise of digital learning.

Early writing begins with making marks, and speaking and listening are treated as foundations for reading and writing. For learning at home, the Nursery Home Learning page provides access to learning packs, online materials and timetables. This gives parents a nursery-specific route into activities beyond the session.

For children learning English alongside a home language, the school's support includes brief speaking sessions individually or in small groups. Visual prompts and practical activities provide other ways to understand a task. Staff use a child's home language where possible, and a buddy system provides translation and support.

Dual-language books connect the two languages rather than setting the home language aside. Meetings with parents also cover support at home, using the family's first language where possible. These are school-wide arrangements relevant to families considering the nursery. The school identifies an Inclusion Manager for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), giving parents a specific team role to contact about their child's needs.

Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through the normal admissions route and meet the applicable deadline. Treat choosing a nursery session and applying for Reception as separate decisions, so that attendance here does not become an assumption about the next place.

Morning nursery runs from 08:30 to 11:30; the afternoon session runs from 12:30 to 15:30. Those finishing times matter when planning collection around work or other children.

Nursery registration takes place at the school office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with parents asked to come between 09:15 and 09:30. Children must be at least two years and six months old to apply; this is the registration threshold. Families can complete the application at school or bring a completed application pack.

For enquiries, use the contact form, email office@yeadinginfants.school or telephone 0208 573 3389. The office is at Carlyon Road, Hayes, UB4 0NR.