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Do I send 3yo DD to private nursery or nursery attached to school?

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whyhasmyheadgonenumb · 26/08/2014 20:45

DD is just 3 and will get her 15 free hours this new school term. She has a place for 3 hours every day (8.45-11.45) at a local nursery that is attached to the primary school, I guess they expect me to send her to that school but I'm moving so will be sending her to a different primary school that doesn't have a nursery as long as she gets in.

I rang a private nursery asking if I could use my 15 free hours with them and they said yes but it equates to just 1.5 days so a long day then half a day. Sounds fine to me but I wonder if going from 1.5 days at nursery to 5 full days at actual school is too much to ask? She is a June baby so will be only just 4 when she starts school. She is quite socialised but has only been at a childminders 1 day and my moms 1 day so far with her brother who is 19 months.
I intend to send her to the school nursery but I've just worked it out and it's going to cost me a fortune in childcare after and before nursery when I'm at work so I'm hugely out of pocket!!!

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whyhasmyheadgonenumb · 26/08/2014 20:47

Sorry posted too soon, meant to ask what other people do as preperation to school?

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PotteringAlong · 26/08/2014 20:49

You just send her to the best nursery for you.

My DS will be doing both - mornings at school nursery with wrap around care at a private nursery.

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addictedtosugar · 26/08/2014 21:05

I need FT childcare.
DS2 will be doing what DS1 did: 2.5 days in a school nursery, with the other 2.5 days in the same day nursery which is doing the before and after school with his brother.
It means wednesdays are very messy, and I need to leave work to shuffle him about, but I think the two environments are very different. I know all settings follow the same curriculum, but I think it is presented very differently in the school setting.

Can you not continue doing what you are at the moment: a day with the childminder, a day with your Mum, and presumably the other 3 days with you?

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whyhasmyheadgonenumb · 26/08/2014 21:10

I can do but I just think that doing that then shoving her into school 5 full days a week might be too much. She is with me 3 days a week but we don't do much, nothing that will get her ready for a classroom! Just pottering about :)

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whyhasmyheadgonenumb · 26/08/2014 21:26

I can't actually thinking about it, I've given notice and she's already filled the space :(

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