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Nursery at Fitzjohn's Primary School
Last reviewed: August 2026 · Inspection data and key information above update regularly, however, this review below is refreshed bi-annually and may not reflect recent changes. Contact the nursery directly to confirm current arrangements. If you spot anything outdated or inaccurate, please let us know.
Fitzjohn's nursery is the first chapter of a small community primary, not a separate childcare provider. The school admits pupils from age three and teaches children through to age 11 at its Fitzjohn's Avenue site. For families, that means the nursery sits inside the routines and expectations of the wider school while remaining an early-years provision in its own right.
The most recent Ofsted inspection, carried out in April 2024, describes the school as a harmonious, calm and orderly community with warm, caring relationships. Those comments apply to the school as a whole rather than constituting a separate nursery judgement.
The nursery follows the Early Years Foundation Stage. In parent terms, this combines communication and language, physical development and personal, social and emotional development with literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design. Learning should therefore move between conversation, stories, movement, early number, creative work and exploration rather than resemble a shortened primary timetable.
Ofsted found in April 2024 that the curriculum in most subjects runs from early years to Year 6 and is designed so children build knowledge over time. It also reported that reading receives high priority from the point pupils start. This gives the nursery a clear link into the school's longer curriculum, while the play-based statutory early-years framework remains the basis for children's day.
Warm relationships are a defined strength in the latest inspection evidence. Ofsted reported that pupils know whom to speak to when worried and that they are kept safe; safeguarding arrangements were effective in April 2024. Pupils with SEND receive kind, patient and effective help from well-trained staff, with needs identified and addressed promptly.
Families should ask the school directly how settling visits, key-person communication, snacks, lunch and personal-care routines work for the current nursery cohort. Those practical conversations matter because they show how the published whole-school approach is translated for three- and four-year-olds.
Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through their local authority by the applicable national closing date. A familiar site and curriculum may support a child's transition, but they do not replace the admissions process or secure admission.
No Reception priority is claimed here. Families should read Camden's current published admission arrangements and name Fitzjohn's on the normal primary-school application if they want it considered.
The nursery is at 86A Fitzjohn's Avenue, London NW3 6NP. Current session patterns, funded-entitlement availability, uniform expectations and drop-off or collection arrangements should be confirmed with the school before applying. This is the safest route for details that can change between intakes, including any charged extras.
The school's published age range begins at three. Ask the school which birth dates are eligible for the next nursery intake.
No separate nursery judgement is presented here. Ofsted inspected the school in April 2024 and included early years within its curriculum discussion.
No. A nursery place does not guarantee Reception admission, and families must submit a separate primary-school application through their local authority.
Contact the school for the current session pattern, availability and collection arrangements before applying.
The April 2024 school inspection found effective, patient support for pupils with SEND and prompt identification of needs. Ask how that approach would meet your child's needs in nursery.
