My son is 3 he started his nursery in Feb this year, he took till late April to really settle, by this i mean stop crying when i left him every day. The nursery where he goes is attached to a school, and they start them off early on school life teaching them the phonics sounds etc getting them ready for school. He was quickly moved up (within a few weeks of starting) to phase 2 phonics as his key worker felt he was ready and he was doing really well. However after the summer holidays he changed from the afternoon sessions to the morning sessions and this changed his key worker, since changing sessions, he has been really unsettled, doesnt want to go to nursery, and now they are telling me that he wont participate in lesson time (phonics) so now they want to move him back down to phase 1 although they can see that he can do the work and is close to phase 3, he wont do it every lesson time, but when i go in and sit with him he will do everything they want, or when his old key worker sits with him he does everything but he wont do it in this new group.
At home he does everything and is really doing well, its really frustrating, they are telling me that its coz he is most happy at home and is enjoying the one to one with me. But doesnt every child like that?
What im worried about is i know he is only young dont get me wrong, i know he is only 3, but moving him down groups is fine, but when they know he can do the work, but its just that for some reason in the last couple of months something has change in nursery which has made him stop sharing this with them, and if this continues and he gets used to not doing things in school, in 9 months he will start real school and then whats going to happen, he is clearly a fairly bright child, and he is going to end up in all the wrong groups for all the wrong reasons, all because something has gone wrong and they cant get the information out of my son for what ever reason.
Im worried that he is unhappy for what ever reason, he said he is frightened of all the children at the nursery, but he was fine before the summer holidays, but obviously lots of new children started this term.
Has anyone ever come across this before with their children doing things at home but not in nursery or school? And if so how did you over come this? Any advice would be greatly received.
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slcd2013 · 03/12/2013 13:33
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