Please give me some perspective. My 3-year-old attends a private nursery in an international school because my husband is a teacher there. He currently goes five mornings a week, but is in the minority, as the majority of children attend full-time and also go to after school clubs until 4.30pm (8.10am start).
He is being taught cursive writing, phonics, numeracy and we are being encouraged to work with him at home to get him ready for Reception, which he is due to attend from September full-time five days a week. He loves making friends, playing and the PE bit, but although the school talks a lot about play-based learning I am fairly certain that they are already regularly sitting down to fairly structured learning sessions around literacy and numeracy. I know that his teachers are giving him one-on-one tuition to help him in this area - an area that he instinctively doesn't get and just seems confused and frustrated with. They are also being taught French at the school. The three days a week when he doesn't have PE I struggle to get him into school, because he just doesn't seem to want to go days when perhaps there is more pressure to be sitting on the carpet doing literacy and numeracy.
Am I crazy to be questioning this in-demand, highly regarded school which we have access to FOR FREE by dint of my husband's profession? My gut instinct tells me again and again that it is too much too soon for my little boy. He is not ready for all of this. And my heart breaks at the thought of him going full-time from September and being subject to even more stresses at the just-turned age of 4 (he's a summer baby). We are unlikely to stay in this area long term so it really doesn't matter if we lost his place as likely to move in a year's time.
My instinct is to take him out, find some local play-based preschool with part-time hours and enjoy the rest of the week at home together, with his little brother. My husband is completely opposed and thinks I am crazy and being selfish.
Any advice?
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Madness? My 3-year-old being taught phonics, numeracy, cursive writing at private nursery.
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bookishmum · 26/05/2014 03:27
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