Nursery and Reception Intake - Hackbridge Primary School

Our school provision for 2026/2027...

On our ‘Hackbridge Corner’ site:

• 15-hour Nursery places (13 places in the morning class from 8.45am-11.45am and 13 places in the afternoon class from 12.30pm-3.30pm)

• 30-hour Nursery places (for those with an extended entitlement eligibility code) (39 places 9am-3pm)

• Four forms of entry (120 pupils - 30 places per class) in Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 5 & Year 6

On our ‘London Road’ site:

• Four forms of entry (120 pupils - 30 places per class) in Year 3

• Three forms of entry (90 pupils - 30 places per class) in Year 4

Use of our school sites:

• All nursery classes are on the Hackbridge Corner site.

• All pupils starting the school in Reception are educated on the Hackbridge Corner site. They remain educated on the Hackbridge Corner site until the end of their year in Year 2.

• For their Years 3 & 4, all classes in the year group move to the London Road site.

• For Years 5 & 6, the year groups return to the Hackbridge Corner site.

PLEASE NOTE:

All parents are reminded that, as a four-form entry school across split sites, pupils will move between sites during the course of their primary education with us, as outlined above.

We teach the children that they are part of a four-form, split site school and they are made familiar with the two school sites through visits and whole school assemblies throughout each year.

The Headteacher advises parents in the summer term each year if a year group cohort is being mixed into new class groupings; this usually happens at the end of Year 3. Such decisions are always made with the best interests of the whole cohort in mind.

The start and finish times of the school day are staggered across the two sites to allow for walking distance between sites for parents who are collecting from both sites.

Breakfast Club starts 75 minutes earlier than the start of the school day on each site - this is 7.30am at Hackbridge Corner and 7.45am at London Road. PLEASE NOTE that the Breakfast Club on the London Road site will never open earlier than 7.45am when pupils transfer from Hackbridge Corner to the London Road as start times have already been adjusted 15 minutes on each site to accommodate parents dropping off to two sites and distances to local train stations.

Starting Reception in September 2026

If you have recently received an offer of a school place at our school from your local authority, please make sure that you have replied to their email to accept this.

EMAILS

• We sent out a welcome email to parents/carers on 17/04/2026 which includes information about wraparound care availability. 

• We sent out an email on 09/06/2026 with details about which Reception intake meeting you are invited to attend, explanation of our new online admissions 'paperwork' platform that will shortly be online and notice that there would be future details sent out about Stay & Play sessions.

• We sent two emails out on 17/06/2026: the first was to advise you of your child's class and teacher for next year and details of how to book your home visit for September. The second email advised you which Stay & Play session you and your child have been invited to on 1st July 2026. 

ADMISSIONS FORMS

On 29th June 2026, you will have received an email from the Admicity platform so that you can create your account and complete your child's admissions information. Please ensure that you have done so by 31st July 2026.

You will need to upload a copy of your child's full/long birth certificate (the copy which shows parent's names as we need a record of those with parental responsibility for a child) to the DOCUMENTATION section of your child's Admicity Profile. If you have any difficulties with this, please bring the birth certificate to the School Office and they can do this for you.

If your child has any medical diagnoses, including any allergies, please upload the diagnosis letters to your child's Admicity Profile also.

Your Admicity account will enable you to always ensure that the school holds up to date information for your child during their time with us. If your telephone number, address or details of your emergency contacts change, you can log back in at any time to update these. Once you have created your account, you can revisit https://hackbridge.admicity.co.uk/login at any time whenever you need to make any updates to the information we hold for your child.

The system will also be used to ensure that the relevant healthcare plans are in place for pupils with anaphylaxis, non-anaphylactic allergies, asthma, eczema, epilepsy, diabetes or any other medical need that a child may have - please ensure that you complete these as soon as they are sent to you.

INTAKE MEETINGS

We held our Reception intake meetings:

• Children with surnames beginning with A to I will have their meeting at 3.45pm on Monday 29th June 2026.

• Children with surnames beginning with J to Z will have their meeting at 3.45pm on Thursday 2nd July 2026.

Whilst the children are spending time with their teacher in the classroom, the Senior Leadership Team will be sharing an intake presentation with you in our Sports Hall and can answer any general questions that people may have.

Entrance will be via the Infant driveway (the gates next to The Red Lion Public House).

STAY & PLAY SESSIONS - 1st JULY 2026

You have been emailed with a specific invite to an hour long Stay & Play session on Wednesday 1st July 2026.This is an opportunity for you and your child to come and see their classroom for September and meet their teacher and some of the other children and parents who will be joining us in September.

Please note, we cannot allow any younger or older siblings to attend these sessions and that there is a limit of one parent/carer per child due the size of the classrooms and the number of attendees scheduled for each session.

Entrance will be via the Infant driveway (the gates next to The Red Lion Public House).

HOME VISITS

Staff will carry out home visits for all children joining our Reception cohort on the following dates: Thurs 3rd Sept, Fri 4th Sept, Mon 7th Sept, Tues 8th Sept and Wed 9th Sept 2026.

To book your Home Visit from your child's class teacher in September, please email office@hackbridgeprimary.sutton.sch.uk with your child's name in the subject line of the email and including the below information in your reply:

Child’s name: 

Child’s class: 

Dates preferred:

Preference for an AM or PM slot:

Please note that the AM slots will be between 9.30am and 12.15pm and PM slots will be between 1.15pm-2.30pm.

Home visits last for around 20-30 minutes.

The teacher will determine the order of the visits within each AM and PM timeslot according to the location of addresses to be visited and the travel time between these for best efficiency.

START DATES FOR RECEPTION IN SEPTEMBER 2026

Reception children then start school the following week as follows:

Thursday 10th September 2026 & Friday 11th September 2026
Half-day sessions on these two days. This is to allow the children to settle in smaller groups initially:

• Children with surnames starting with A-L will attend school from 9.00am-11.30am on these two days.

• Children with surnames starting with M-Z will attend school from 12.30pm-3.00pm on these two days.

Monday 14th September 2026
All Reception children to attend full-time from this date onwards (gates open at 8.35am and close at 8.45am; school day ends at 3.15pm).

Starting Nursery in 2026/2027

Initial offers of places to start in our nursery classes in September 2026 have been made (first two weeks of June). 

IF there are any remaining vacant nursery places after the initial round, then we will offer these out to children on the waiting list. We will contact the parents of children on the waiting lists for the January or April intakes closer to those times.

EMAILS

• We sent out an email to parents/carers of our September 2026 intake on 20/06/2026 which includes information about the Stay & Play session you are invited to attend with your child, the intake meeting you are invited to attend, explanation of our new online admissions 'paperwork' platform that will shortly be online and details of how to book your home visit for September.

ADMISSIONS FORMS

On 29th June 2026, you will have received an email from the Admicity platform so that you can create your account and complete your child's admissions information. Please ensure that you have done so by 31st July 2026.

You will need to upload a copy of your child's full/long birth certificate (the copy which shows parent's names as we need a record of those with parental responsibility for a child) to the DOCUMENTATION section of your child's Admicity Profile. If you have any difficulties with this, please bring the birth certificate to the School Office and they can do this for you.

If your child has any medical diagnoses, including any allergies, please upload the diagnosis letters to your child's Admicity Profile also.

Your Admicity account will enable you to always ensure that the school holds up to date information for your child during their time with us. If your telephone number, address or details of your emergency contacts change, you can log back in at any time to update these. Once you have created your account, you can revisit https://hackbridge.admicity.co.uk/login at any time whenever you need to make any updates to the information we hold for your child.

The system will also be used to ensure that the relevant healthcare plans are in place for pupils with anaphylaxis, non-anaphylactic allergies, asthma, eczema, epilepsy, diabetes or any other medical need that a child may have - please ensure that you complete these as soon as they are sent to you.

INTAKE MEETINGS

Nursery intake meetings are as follows: 

• For children joining Caterpillars & Tadpoles classes: 3.45pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026.

• For children joining Honeybees class: 3.45pm on Friday 3rd July 2026.

Whilst the children are spending time with their teacher in the classroom, the Senior Leadership Team will be sharing an intake presentation with you in our Sports Hall and can answer any general questions that people may have.

Entrance will be via the Infant driveway (the gates next to The Red Lion Public House).

STAY & PLAY SESSIONS - 1st JULY 2026

You have been emailed with a specific invite to an hour long Stay & Play session on Wednesday 1st July 2026.This is an opportunity for you and your child to come and see their classroom for September and meet their teacher and some of the other children and parents who will be joining us in September.

Please note, we cannot allow any younger or older siblings to attend these sessions and that there is a limit of one parent/carer per child due the size of the classrooms and the number of attendees scheduled for each session.

Entrance will be via the Infant driveway (the gates next to The Red Lion Public House).

HOME VISITS

Staff will carry out home visits for all children joining our Nursery cohort on the following dates: Thurs 3rd Sept, Fri 4th Sept, Mon 7th Sept, Tues 8th Sept and Wed 9th Sept 2026.

To book your Home Visit from your child's class teacher in September, please email office@hackbridgeprimary.sutton.sch.uk with your child's name in the subject line of the email and including the below information in your reply:

Child’s name: 

Child’s class: 

Dates preferred:

Preference for an AM or PM slot:

Please note that the AM slots will be between 9.30am and 12.15pm and PM slots will be between 1.15pm-2.30pm.

Home visits last for around 20-30 minutes.

The teacher will determine the order of the visits within each AM and PM timeslot according to the location of addresses to be visited and the travel time between these for best efficiency.

The nursery will be closed to existing nursery pupils on these dates.

START DATES FOR NURSERY IN SEPTEMBER 2026

• Returning nursery children (those who were already attending before the summer holidays) begin back on Thursday 10th September 2026.

• Parents/carers of new children joining any of the nursery classes in September have been emailed with their child's individual start date for September.

Starting School - School Readiness

The Sutton School Nursing team can be contacted by parents/carers who wish to discuss any concerns which they may have regarding their child's health, such as issues with eating/behaviour/bed-wetting. Their telephone number is 020 8770 5409 during office hours (9am - 5pm) Monday to Friday.

The School Nursing Service have made a short video which you can see here.