Keep in private nursery or go to school nursery in September

I’m going to keep my little girl in private nursery until she goes to school, mainly due to my working hours at the moment. But she also loves her nursery x

We're keeping our daughter at her private nursery. She absolutely loves it and it suits our working hours. We'll also have a period where we have a baby at nursery as well. Tbh I feel like the school times just create another childcare headache and trying to avoid that for as long as possible 🤣

Different here as with an early September baby we’ll be putting him in pre school the year before school. If he was in the year below (Aug 22 baby) I don’t think I would.

@Gillian that was my mindset too around the school times and term times, I want to avoid that for a long as I can too 🤣

We're keeping our little one in her private nursery. (We're moving so going to cost me a 40 min drive in the morning) but she absolutely loves it there! And then I have applied for the pre school attached to the school she will go to - 2 days a week. To get her ready for school. If she loves it there then I think I'll phase out the nursery and up her days at pre school xx

Private nursery due to work times

My LG goes to a stand alone pre-school. She'll be moving to a school nursery in September, I don't think the August thing makes a difference imo they all mature at different rates. She's got a better chance of getting into the school if they've already got a place at the attached nursery as they take priority (so I was told) also that gives her time to get familiar with the place and people before she's dropped into the deep end with 5 full days of planned activities rather than free play. X

I work in a private nursery and will keep my son at preschool until he goes to school after just turning 4. If I didn’t work there I would have sent him to a nursery school in September. I would say, as he is at a nursery- keep him there as he will have friends/know children there. A private nursery and nursery school have to follow the same curriculum so therefore his learning shouldn’t be compromised x

We're in the same boat, my lg is 3 on the 27th August so only just 3 the week before she is due to start school nursery. I applied for her school nursery place and she got it but we're more than likely going to keep her where she is at her private nursery because she has bonded with staff and calls the other kids 'her family'🥰 it feels too harsh to make her re-settle somewhere else when she's worked so hard to settle where she is! We were torn though because we wanted her to have that settling in period for primary school but it just feels too soon for us personally

School nursery purley as they have breakfast and after school clubs/it guarantees his place into the school xx

Put off the logistics of school holidays for as long as possible I say!!! It’s a balance though - as you want a space at the school long term I assume? You might have to suck it up

We're keeping our little boy in nursery until reception after he turns 4. He absolutely loves it there and they're amazing with them. He wasn't talking much when he started in August last year and is now talking in 3-4 word sentences and has about 200 words in his vocab. In 5m! He's thriving in nursery so keeping him there for as long as I can!

We are staying at private nursery, we both work full time so it just wouldn’t work for us when it comes to school holidays at the minute, he only goes to nursery 1 day a week at the minute but we will increase it in September with the extra hours x