Welcome to Fosse Way Pre-School

GROW LEARN BELIEVE SUCCEED

Welcome to Preschool at Fosse Way Academy

Bright futures begin with curious minds. At Fosse Way Academy, our preschool offers a warm, nurturing environment specifically tailored for children aged 3 to 4. Led by a fully qualified teacher, our curriculum seamlessly blends play-based exploration with structured early learning activities to inspire creativity, foster independence, and build early literacy and numeracy skills.

Being located onsite within Fosse Way Academy offers our preschool children a unique advantage. From day one, your child becomes part of the wider school community—becoming familiar with the environment, school routines, and staff. This dedicated setting ensures a confident, natural, and remarkably smooth transition into Reception, giving your child the best possible head start to their primary school journey.

Why Choose Fosse Way Academy Preschool?

Led by Qualified Teachers: High-quality early childhood education delivered by qualified teaching staff focused on every child’s individual developmental milestones.
Seamless School Transition: Located directly on the Fosse Way Academy site, helping children feel comfortable and confident before moving up to Reception.
Engaging Play-Based Learning: Hands-on activities designed to spark curiosity in reading, early math, science, and creative arts.
Whole-Child Development: Equal focus on academic readiness, social-emotional growth, confidence, and physical motor skills within a safe, inclusive environment.

We invite you to tour our preschool setting, meet our passionate team, and discover how we can support your child's first steps in education. Schedule a visit today to join the Fosse Way Academy family!

Pre-School Admission Form

[pdf 206KB]

Our Pre-School provides a safe, secure and bright environment in which children can have fun, learn to play and co-operate with each other, both in the indoor and outdoor classroom areas.

Children have opportunities to make choices and decisions and lay the foundations for future learning.

When starting Pre-School, your child will be in a 'family group' with one of the Pre-School staff. This helps your child feel safe as part of a smaller group and gives us the opportunity to get to know each child very well. It also makes it easier for you as a parent to chat about your child and share information with us.

The Pre-School class is an integral part of Fosse Way Academy and while not all children move from the Pre-School to our mainstream school, we hope that you will want your child to continue their learning here.

We believe it is important to give all Pre-School children opportunities to join in whole school activities whenever we can. During the year they will participate in assemblies, performances and use the hall and gym for physical activities.

The Pre-School Day

The Pre-School day is organised to provide two sessions of equal length each day. If your child is late, just bring them into school by the front door as the Pre-School doors are locked when the session starts.

Morning Session

8.45am - 11.45am

Lunchtime

11.45am - 12.30pm

Afternoon Session

11.45am - 2.45pm

Each child is entitled to five funded sessions per week, with additional sessions to be purchased if required. Some children may be entitled to ten funded sessions but parents need to provide a verification code to access these additional sessions. These can be taken flexibly over the week. In addition to this, we offer wrap-around care from 7.30am to 6.00pm at an additional cost.

For safety reasons, we ask that your child is brought to Pre-School by an adult at the beginning of each session and that you come to the Pre-School gate to collect your child each day. Please let us know who will be collecting your child. This is especially important if it is someone different from usual.