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Nursery at Haveley Hey Community 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 If you spot anything outdated or inaccurate, please let us know.
Stories, rhymes and learning classroom routines give Haveley Hey’s nursery its clearest character. This is the nursery provision within Haveley Hey Community School in Benchill, Manchester, with entry from age three. Children begin their education within the school, but a nursery place and a Reception place are separate decisions.
Ofsted judged the school’s early years provision Good at the inspection on 8 and 9 October 2024. That judgement covers early years rather than a separately inspected nursery.
Language gets attention through story listening and rhymes. In October 2024, these nursery activities helped children extend their vocabulary, giving them more words to use as they begin learning alongside others.
Classroom routines are another part of the early years experience. In October 2024, children became familiar with routines quickly and developed behaviours that helped their learning. For a young child beginning school, that makes the everyday pattern part of the education: learning how to take part matters alongside learning new words.
Settling is designed around the individual child. The nursery’s 2022–23 arrangements provided for a transition programme linking home and school after a place was accepted. Where teaching staff considered that a child needed a longer introduction, they would plan it with parents or carers. The important practical principle is flexibility around the child, rather than expecting every family to follow an identical settling timetable.
For concerns about bullying, the school’s procedure starts with the class teacher. Staff record concerns on CPOMS, and the Safeguarding Team investigates and decides what happens next. This gives parents a clear first contact and a process for following up a concern.
Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through their home local authority, by the deadline for the relevant admissions round. Manchester residents apply through Manchester’s local authority.
For the 2023–24 admissions cycle, nursery attendance gave no priority in the Reception oversubscription criteria. Those criteria considered care status, exceptional medical or social circumstances, and qualifying siblings before other applicants, with distance ordering applications within each category. A sibling attending nursery did not qualify a child for sibling priority. Familiarity with the school therefore needs to be kept separate from entitlement to a place.
Nursery enquiries go directly to the school. The school administrator handles requests to join the nursery waiting list and provides further information; adding a child’s name early does not assure a place.
The trust’s charging arrangements approved in March 2021 described an additional 15 trust-funded hours alongside the local authority’s 15-hour allocation for children aged 3–4. They also allowed that support to change, with families told before accepting a place if additional hours would attract charges. Ask the school for current charges before accepting.
Snack charges may apply. Nappies supplied by the school are chargeable when parents have not provided them. These are separate considerations from the funded hours, so families should distinguish the hours offered from care-related extras.
Children cannot begin nursery before their third birthday.
Contact the school administrator to request the nursery waiting-list form. Early registration does not guarantee a place.
The 2022–23 arrangements included a home and school transition programme after acceptance, with a longer introduction planned with parents where staff considered it necessary.
No. A separate application is required through the home local authority. Nursery attendance was not a priority criterion for the 2023–24 Reception admissions cycle.
Early years provision was judged Good on 8 and 9 October 2024. Nursery story listening and rhymes supported vocabulary development, while early years children quickly learned classroom routines.
