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If your child Private school discuss holiday arrangements

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Namechanged2251 · 07/04/2023 14:11

My child only just started private school. In the past holiday childcare arrangements were fine as I booked her into holiday clubs but I’m really confused what to do now. How do the rest of you do it?

She broke up 2 days before state so didn’t have any holiday clubs, and she goes back 3 days after state school so again no holiday club on these days.

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PuntoLon · 07/04/2023 18:39

My DD just started too and school has their own holiday clubs but as PP said definitely use them to book family holidays if you can as they come out so much cheaper than when state holidays start. As an eg - butlins was doing 4 nights break for less than 1/3 price the week before state Easter break started compared to same break during Easter.

SaltyGod · 07/04/2023 18:40

Ours have lots of holiday outside of state schools. Weeks at Easter, summer and Christmas where there is no provision.

We have a nanny as I work full time and couldn't do it otherwise.

Parker231 · 07/04/2023 18:42

GloryBees · 07/04/2023 18:36

It’s no surprise private school holidays are longer. That needed to be factored in when deciding if you can offer it to your child. Most private school parents I know have a parent who works at most a few hours a week or suggest you employ a nanny? Most parents spend the time on holiday away.

DH and I both worked full time. I went back to work when DT’s were six months old - normal maternity leave then. We had normal holiday entitlements so used holiday club based at their school. Same with my friends - no SAHP.

2reefsin30knots · 07/04/2023 18:43

When DS was little we always had a few days at the start and end of his holidays that we couldn't cover ourselves.

We used a sitter from sitters.co.uk. You put your required dates and times into the website and registered sitters offer to do the work- you can read their bios and choose. We used them for about 5 years and in that time only had two or three different people and they were all super lovely- all older women with a background in childcare. We threw money at it though, to make sure the people we liked came back! Paid about £100/day for 8am- 4pm.

Nevermind31 · 07/04/2023 18:49

It’s one of the reasons DS is not private anymore (amongst others, including us moving to an excellent state school with small class sizes) - it was really hard as clubs wouldn’t always cover the holidays. So it was a mix of annual leave, clubs, and swapping with others (a day each, but you end up with a houseful on your day…)

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