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Nursery at West Denton 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 If you spot anything outdated or inaccurate, please let us know.
Roses is the nursery class at West Denton Primary School, giving the youngest children a named place within the primary school. The provision belongs to the school on Hillhead Road in West Denton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This is a school nursery, with school-wide arrangements for additional needs and family support.
Early years has a separate curriculum strand, with EYFS English and mathematics included within the school's curriculum structure. EYFS means Early Years Foundation Stage. Children develop their speaking and listening, movement skills and relationships, alongside early reading and writing, maths, exploring the world and creative expression. Learning combines play, exploration and active, creative activities inside and outdoors, giving children different ways to practise these skills.
Support for additional needs involves a SEND coordinator and an assistant coordinator. Their responsibilities include advising families and training staff. Across the school, SEN Support Plans set individual targets, while review meetings and informal conversations give parents ways to discuss their child's needs. That provides a practical starting point for families whose child needs extra help.
Communication support includes visual timetables to explain what happens next, Makaton and social stories. The school also has spaces with fewer distractions and sensory stimuli. These are concrete adjustments to how children receive information and experience their surroundings, rather than a single approach for every child. Speech and language work can take place individually or in small groups, using specialist programmes delivered by trained support staff.
For pupils with a higher level of additional need, a key worker supports individual targets, access to learning and pastoral needs. This is a specific additional-needs arrangement. The wider welfare team includes SEN-trained teaching assistants and a Parent Support Advisor; specialist links include Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy.
Medicine requires advance coordination. Families should ordinarily give prescribed medicine at home before and after school; exceptional arrangements for administration during school need discussion with the child's teacher. Following vomiting, the advice is to keep the child home for 48 hours. Families need to allow for that interruption to attendance.
Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through the normal admissions route.
For September 2026 entry, applications went through Newcastle City Council's online school-place service, with a closing date of 15th January 2026. That cycle is now past. The school office could assist families having application difficulties, including those needing a paper form. Treat the nursery choice and the later Reception application as separate decisions.
Contact the school on 0191 2674211 or email admin@westdenton.newcastle.sch.uk for enquiries. For concerns about learning or wellbeing, families can discuss them with school staff; the SEND team provides a route for questions about additional support.
Collection changes need a direct message to the class teacher when someone different will collect the child. This gives staff notice of the change in responsibility. During the 2026–27 school year, pupils do not attend on the remaining staff training days of Monday 4th January 2027 and Monday 7th June 2027. Those dates need space in the family childcare calendar.
No. Nursery attendance does not guarantee a place, and families must apply separately for Reception.
Call 0191 2674211 or email admin@westdenton.newcastle.sch.uk.
The school's team includes a SEND coordinator, an assistant coordinator and SEN-trained teaching assistants. Pupils with a higher level of additional need have a key worker.
Inform the class teacher directly when the usual parent or carer will not be collecting.
Prescribed medicine should ordinarily be given at home before and after school. Contact the child's teacher about exceptional circumstances requiring administration at school.
