What do you about this?

[Tiasmummy]

Hiya. My daughter is nearly 2 and goes to a Primary Steps nursery which opened in May this year. It is very nice but only has two rooms. 3 months to 2 years and 2 years to 5 years. There are not many kids there yet it being a new nursery. Just thought putting 2-5 year olds together was a bit strange....I mean there is a huge difference in age and capability right?

Obviously they have dont this due to lack of space but just wondered what thoughts were on this....

Thanks :-)

[Tiasmummy]

oppps foegot to put "think" in the title!

[Tiasmummy]

forgot rather...lol!

[dmo]

if it was my nursery i would have just catered for 2-5yr olds so had one room for 2-3yr olds and one room for 3.5-5yr olds
but its not
ofsted must have agreed to this arrangment but it is a funny set up as 0-1 yr old is 1 staff to 3 babies, 1-2yr old is the same, 2-3yr old is 1 staff to 4 children and 3-5 is 1 staff to 8 children
so in the first room 3mths to 2yrs you have babies,crawers and walkers, so for every 3 children their has to be a member of staff, room will be croaded

[liquidclocks]

Sounds similar to my nursery and works really well there. The children learn from each other - younger ones pick up skills that they copy and older ones are taught to be kind and helpful to the younger ones. Of course DS has come home with the odd 'unwanted' learned behavour but I think that would have happened anyway.

[Tiasmummy]

Cheers for your replies dmo and liquidlocks :-)

[julienetmum]

I imagine that there would be very very few 5 year olds there as most would leave the Septemebr after they turn 4 to start school.

You might get almost 5 year olds who have say an early September and the odd one whose parent choses not to send them to school until year one but in reality it would be a 2-4 year old room.