'St Joseph's Explorers' 

Come along and join the fun at our Nursery and Reception  'Stay and Play' sessions held on the following dates:

This take place from 1:30 pm-2:45 pm on the following dates:
Friday 26th September 2025
Friday 10th October 2025
Friday 7th November 2025

There will be lots of activities for your child to take part in, free of charge, and you can see all our wonderful teachers and children in action! 

If you are looking for places for Reception and Nursery, we still have some limited half day or full day places available for this year. We are also taking admissions for the September 2026! So why not come along and see what St Joseph's have to offer? 

Nursery & Reception Open Evening

Join us on Thursday 23^rd October 2025 at 3:15 pm at the Infants school , Marsh Lane, Leyton, E10 7BL for our Nursery and Reception open evening. Come tour our school, meet the wonderful EYFS team and Headteacher and see why we should be your first choice. We offer 2 ,3 & 4 year old nursery places. If your child is starting Reception in September 2026, come and join us ! Hope to see you there !

We are a wonderfully diverse and inclusive school and embrace families of all faiths and none.

Please call the school on 0208 539 3000 to book a place or email the school the school: office@st-josephs-inf.waltham.sch.uk 

Our 'Early Years Provision'  ( Nursery and Reception) provides the perfect environment for our youngest children to develop the keys skills of social, language and emotional communication. These are the prerequisites to learning, and are the first building blocks to our children becoming independent and confident learners. 

In Early Years and Foundation Stage (EYFS), our expert team of staff are strongly guided by the principles of using a child led approach with continuous provision, balanced with adult led structured teaching time to engage children to learn form the world around them.  

We use the systematic phonics reading programme 'Read, Write, Inc' to teach children their initial sounds before blending and segmenting these to read and write more challenging words and sentences. Our phonics programme starts in Nursery. This means that many of our children who previously attended our Nursery, already enter Reception know how to read and 'sound out' key words.    

''Teachers check what pupils have learned and make sure that pupils have opportunities to revisit their learning. In early years, teachers ensure that children are able to see, practise and embed new knowledge''. 

Ofsted January 2022