Fircroft Primary School Nursery

Squirrels and Hedgehogs give Fircroft’s nursery its own identity within the primary school. This is the school’s nursery provision on Fircroft Road in Tooting, with children normally joining in the September after their third birthday. Part-time and full-time places give families two different attendance patterns to consider.

The school describes its community as confident and creative. Nursery art gives that creative ambition a concrete form: children explore colour, handle different materials and make their own choices about what to create.

Making and experimenting are tangible parts of the nursery curriculum. Art tasks include printing with string and making faces from fruit and vegetables. Children try paint with brushes, fingers and other tools, mix colours and combine materials with different textures. These activities connect creative choices with practice in handling tools and developing fine motor skills.

The early years foundation stage (EYFS) brings learning and development together. Its learning framework includes exploration through play, active involvement and creative thinking. For parents, that means looking beyond a finished picture to the ideas, decisions and experimentation involved in making it.

Early years computing also sits within continuous provision, meaning the activities available through the learning day. It introduces skills connected with creating media, programming, information and computer systems. This places technology alongside other learning rather than presenting it solely as a separate subject lesson.

Preparation begins with summer-term welcome meetings for new nursery families. Parents can contact the nursery team directly at nursery@fircroft.family, giving them a specific route for questions about their child.

For children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND), early years monitoring begins once they have settled. Support follows Assess, Plan, Do, Review: staff consider the child’s needs, agree help with parents, put it into practice and review its impact. Within this support process, the child’s key person, a teacher or teaching assistant, remains responsible for daily work with them.

Individual Education Plans are reviewed with families each term. One Page Profiles explain children’s needs to the adults supporting them, while specialist services include the Early Years Inclusion Advisory Service and Speech and Language Therapy Service. The wider school is mostly on one level to assist wheelchair access. These arrangements give families concrete ways to discuss support and access before their child starts.

Nursery attendance neither guarantees a Reception place nor gives admission priority. Families must make a separate application and have it considered alongside other applications. Choosing the nursery therefore needs to stand on its own merits.

Wandsworth residents apply through Wandsworth Council; families living elsewhere apply through their home borough. For children who find changing classes difficult, support can include a transition passport to share over the summer and a one-page profile for the next teacher. That preparation supports the child’s move; it does not alter admission rights.

The full-time pattern covers Monday to Friday, totalling 30 hours. Part-time attendance combines full days on Monday and Tuesday with Wednesday morning. This is a fixed pattern to match against the family’s working week.

Families applying for the funded 30-hour option provide an HMRC code. Those entitled to 15 hours can request the additional 15 hours through paid top-up arrangements. Contact the school for current charges.

Nursery applications go directly to the school. The office can be reached on 020 8672 6258 or office@fircroft.family. Whole-school tours usually start at 09:30 on Thursday mornings and last 45–60 minutes, subject to availability.