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Nursery at Beatrix Potter Primary School
Last reviewed: October 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 If you spot anything outdated or inaccurate, please let us know.
Soup-making, pretend shops and stories give Beatrix Potter’s nursery its character: children learn through things they can handle, discuss and try themselves. The provision sits within Beatrix Potter Primary School on Magdalen Road in Earlsfield, where the school’s age range begins at three.
There are 26 full-time-equivalent nursery places, shared across morning, afternoon and full-time attendance. That is a capacity measure rather than a promise of 26 places in each session. The balance between full-time and part-time places depends on the applications received each year.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) connects learning with play. Language, movement and emotional development form its starting points; number work, literacy, creative expression and discovering the world build alongside them. For parents, that means a pretend café or a cooking activity can serve several purposes: talking with others, handling equipment and exploring unfamiliar ingredients.
The nursery curriculum map gives those ideas substance. Children explore food through cooking, including vegetable soup and fruit salad. Stories prompt conversation and pretend play, while Little Wandle supplies the foundations for phonics. Listening to sounds and blending them aloud introduce skills children will later use in reading.
Independence gets practical attention. Children practise managing coats, washing hands and using the toilet, with help where needed. Mark-making includes sand and shaving foam, giving small hands different ways to explore movement before writing becomes the main task.
Outdoor learning has its own activity spaces. A toy shop extends pretend play outside, while an airport or train-station setup provides another pretend-play setting. Water-tray investigations introduce floating and sinking. These give children reasons to test ideas and explain what happened. In June 2024, Ofsted described early-years children taking turns and sharing materials sensibly, evidence of cooperation alongside the learning activities.
Settling begins in stages. In September 2026, EYFS stay-and-play sessions took place before the nursery’s staggered start. Families had an introduction before moving into the regular routine. The nursery team includes a teacher with Foundation Coordinator responsibilities and teaching assistants.
Communication centres on the class teacher: the EYFS parent guide encourages families to exchange information about their child. Full-time attendance includes provision for lunch, with school meals charged and lunch-supervision charges applying where the relevant funding scheme does not cover them.
For additional needs, the school’s SEND arrangements provide a route from a discussion with the class teacher to SENCO involvement. Speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and autism support are among the specialist services used when needs have been identified and support agreed. This gives families a route for planning support around their child rather than relying on an informal conversation alone.
Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. The school’s 2024–25 admission arrangements explicitly exclude automatic transfer and give nursery attendance no additional priority: oversubscribed places are allocated using the listed criteria alone.
Parents must make a separate Reception application through their home local authority’s Common Application Form, meeting the deadline for their child’s admissions cycle. The nursery curriculum treats the emotional side separately, with discussions about changing classes, feelings and what children look forward to learning. Familiarity with school life is preparation, not an admissions advantage.
Nursery applications go directly to the school, with parents indicating the attendance pattern they want. Morning and afternoon places each provide 15 funded hours a week. Full-time places can combine these with an additional funded offer where applicable, or paid hours; ask the school for current charges.
The nursery-specific timetable gives afternoon attendance as 12.05pm to 3.15pm, and full-time attendance as 8.55am to 3.15pm. Collection is from the classroom door, and an alternative collecting adult must be authorised in writing.
Nursery tours run at 4pm on Thursdays during term time and require an email booking. For nursery enquiries, contact the school office on 020 8874 1482 or info@beatrixpotter.wandsworth.sch.uk.
No. The 2024–25 arrangements rule out automatic transfer and additional priority for nursery attendance. A separate local-authority application is required.
Morning, afternoon and full-time places are offered. The mix depends on that year’s applications and requests for part-time attendance.
The school offers 15 funded hours with part-time places. An additional funded offer may contribute to full-time attendance where applicable; paid hours are another option. Meals and lunch supervision have separate charging conditions.
September 2026 included EYFS stay-and-play sessions followed by a staggered nursery start.
Yes. Nursery tours take place on Thursdays at 4pm during term time, booked by email through the Nursery Admissions page.
