Nursery Admissions

Children born between 1st September 2022 and 31st August 2023 are eligible for a nursery place in September 2026. Applications can be made via Harrow Admissions.

Our nursery has 52 places for 15 hours per week offering either morning or afternoon sessions.

Apply 

To apply for a nursery school place for September 2026 you will need to:

• complete the application form
• email the nursery school you have applied to and provide documents to support your application

Apply for a Nursery place at Whitchurch here.

Closing date for applications

The closing date for applications to be processed in the main round is 15 January 2026. Any applications submitted after 15th January 2026 are considered late and will be processed after 15th March 2026.

If you want to submit a late application, please complete the application form.

Nursery Admissions criteria

If more applications are received than there are places in a nursery, places will be offered to children in the following order:

• A 'looked after child' or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after became subject to adoption, care arrangements or special guardianship order, including those who appear to the admissions authority to have been in a state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted.
• Children referred by Harrow’s Special Educational Needs Assessment and Review Service
• Sibling link - children with a brother or sister attending the linked primary, infant or junior school at the time of the admission
• All other children

If there are more children than there are places remaining in the nursery, then the available places will be offered to those who live closest. The distance will be measured in a straight line from home to the centre point of the school site.