AIBU to question the school banning prams from the buggy shed?

That's the point of setting off earlier. To accommodate the slow walking. She can still run home.

Walking to nursery for an energetic 3yo shouldn't tire them out that much. I mean the easiest solution to your problem is to just get the 3yo to walk.

Also surely your 6yo isn't walking it in 13 minutes anyway so having your 3yo walk won't make it that much slower if they can do it in 25

your child’s stamina will increase massively if you walk them daily, and invest the time it takes with them being slow now, they will be faster soon.

What an overcomplicated mess. Why OP is sprinting home to start work when there is an option of breakfast club is beyond me. What a stressful start to a load of mornings. Get rid of the stroller, scooter of bikes for the kids on the days you're in the office OP and breakfast club on the WFH days

My kids have walked to school and nursery since they were 2/3 (my son would walk with me to my daughter’s school for dropoff. Almost exactly a mile). Kind of tedious at the start but now he can do that walk in about 10 minutes - it’s super worth putting the time in when they’re little, he runs circles around me now.

Well my 3 year old wouldn’t walk 13 mins. He’ll walk 2-3 mins tops before asking me to carry him and then have a massive tantrum if I don’t. Neither walking with a screaming child or carrying one sounds like a reasonable thing to do every morning. I think the school should respond to a polite request for an exception. Yes if everyone did it, the space would be full but probably most people don’t need to do it so maybe they could accommodate those who really do. They could always email parents and ask who needs it - if loads of people respond they can think of another solution . But if it’s just a few then maybe make some exceptions.

I walk a mile in 15 minutes and I wouldn't say I walk particularly fast!

I totally get your point OP to have a facility that you can't use is annoying. At 3 mine had scooters. On the way back I was always pulling them along! Would have been a nightmare without the scooters. Why on earth doesn't the school have bike racks? I would maybe use your energy to petition for that.

Many nursery children came in buggies too. I don't think it is a big deal at 3. I always found those children who were out of buggies at 2 were driven around everywhere.Those of us who walked everywhere used buggies - not least to carry all your things and put the shopping in. My autistic eldest was a runner offer too so the buggy was needed for safety too.

They are at the school nursery and it’s a short walk by the sounds of it. Of course you’re entitled to your opinion. I’m not sure why you would disagree with mine enough to comment though. I have taught enough 3 year olds to know that there are the odd comments made like ‘you’re a baby.’ If they arrive in a pushchair or with a dummy. I’m not saying that it’s right or that I agree and of course I would intervene but I was trying to nicely give OP my opinion and benefit of my experience and suggest that they should maybe try and walk with extra time.

But there is nowhere to leave the scooters or bikes!

This sounds absolutely insane. You're not being at all unreasonable and all the posters saying get up earlier etc are completely missing the point.

They want to stop the complaints every week from the stay ‘n play parents.

School is a 13 minute adult walk away. You run it in 7ish minutes to get home by 9:00.
This could be resolved on wfh days by making your morning Teams meeting start at 9:15 - if you walk home with the buggy rather than running home unencumbered you'll be at your desk by 9:06 and will have time to catch up on emails before the morning meeting starts. Clearly you aren't expected into the office by 9 on office days so there has to be some flexibility, you've just got the wrong balance. In an average uk city the amount of physical ground space that would be needed in order to accommodate one buggy per nursery child plus every stay-and-play child would be worth tens of thousands of pounds, it's not a sensible use of resources. That's the logical reason.

My grandsons school walked all the kids a mile round the fields before lessons each day. MDe sure they had got rid of excess energy before lessons. This was the4-6 year old class

Haha. It’s a mad house. Maybe type in cap lock for the people missing the information. 😅

This would massively annoy me. Solidarity, OP. You’d think the school would be wanting to help you solve the problem.

Taking this up a level, we do need people to keep having children, and shenanigans like this that make life that bit harder to juggle kids and working etc are just so unhelpful.

The walk home should sort that lol

Can you get a super lightweight small folding travel pushchair? If so could you ask them if they would let you hang it int he shed so it’s not taking up space? I got one that folded up really small for a trip when mine were small and I think it was about 15 quid on Facebook marketplace. You can get ones that folded up to the size of a backpack too.

I find the kicking you’re getting here a bit odd OP. If the stay and play is 9-10 on a Wednesday morning it’s bizarre they’ve said no to the use of the shed all the other days! What do kids do with their bikes and scooters? Loads of kids in my area cycle/scoot to school! We bought a cargo bike we love for quick school drop offs without the car if that’s an option? I would want to email again and ask how this rule impacts encouraging exercise and kids to walk/scoot/cycle to school versus being dropped off? Better environmentally, for traffic reduction and air quality no? If I couldn’t leave my kids scooter at school we wouldn’t take it as I can’t then bring it with me on the train to work!

Where does it say that? It says buggies can't be left in a buggy park! Every primary school I know encourages walking to school and has bike racks etc to leave bikes and scooters