Nursery at Chapel Haddlesey Church of England Primary School

The Discovery Room gives Chapel Haddlesey’s nursery a concrete point of character: nursery and early years children use it for exploration. This is provision within a Church of England primary school on Millfield Road in Chapel Haddlesey, near Selby, rather than a separate nursery setting.

The school’s age range begins at three. Chapel Haddlesey describes its approach as centred on individual children, with Christian values shaping its ethos. For parents, that places the nursery within a school community with a shared educational and religious identity.

Exploration has a named indoor space here. Nursery children use the Discovery Room alongside other early years children, giving them a place within the school’s learning environment where exploring is the activity itself.

That is the clearest nursery-specific feature of the day. The school describes learning built around children and aims to give them experiences that encourage ambition. The Discovery Room provides a tangible example of space devoted to their early learning.

Support for families extends across the White Rose Federation. Its pastoral team works with Early Help and Compass Buzz, providing links between school support and external agencies. For a family dealing with difficulties at home or concerns about a child’s wellbeing, that offers a route into a wider support network.

ELSA, short for Emotional Literacy Support Assistant, is part of the school’s pastoral provision. Trained teaching assistants deliver programmes tailored to children’s emotional needs; sessions at Chapel Haddlesey take place individually or in small groups in a quiet school area. These are school support arrangements, with the format allowing attention to an individual child or a small group.

A SEND coordinator works across the federation. This gives families a specialist role to approach about special educational needs and disabilities. Parents can also use self-referral to seek external help for themselves or their child throughout the year, including for behaviour or difficulties at home. School involvement need not be the first step.

Nursery attendance does not guarantee a Reception place. Families must make a separate Reception application through the normal admissions route and meet the normal deadline.

The local authority uses admission criteria to select children for the school. Treat the nursery choice and the Reception application as separate decisions: spending time in the nursery must not be taken as an allocation of a later school place.

The school office can be contacted on 01757 270282, and families can send an enquiry through the contact form. The nursery’s school address is Millfield Road, Chapel Haddlesey, Selby, YO8 8QF.

For families requiring accessible communication, the school invites requests for information in Braille, audio, large print or paper form. That gives parents a practical way to receive school information in a format they can use.