How long is your school and nursery run in the morning ?

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I leave the house at 7:45 and I'm not back until past 9 am.

It seems really long to me. All driving !

First I drop my son at a nearby nursery and then I do the bigger drive to my DD's preschool.

It's really tiring !

Just wanting to have a moan and understand if my school run is the norm ?

I walk 5 minutes total! That is ridiculously early to have to leave, are you very rural?

20 minute walk there. Used to work about a 2 minute walk further, I'll have an extra 30 minute walk soon.. but I'm quite looking forward to that time alone!

My 10 and 4 year old are both finally at the same school (for all of 2 school years) 40 mins from leaving to getting home if I'm WFH that day.

Before with nursery drop off and school 70- 80 mins 💀

We are lucky - leave to walk to school at 8.40, junior school drop off 8.50, infant school 8.55, home by 9.

It’s about a 2-3 minute walk from back gate to school for DS2 and about a 3-4 minute walk for DS1

We leave home at 07:30, I drop my son off at school around 07:55 and I get to work at 08:05. If we leave just 10 minutes later, it can add 20-30 minutes to our journey.

I'm very lucky. My nursery run was a 5 minute drive (but an unpleasant 1 hour walk, which I did sometimes have to do - you couldn't walk the most efficient driving route). My school run is about 3 seconds, as we live next door.

The school is only 6 minutes drive on a good day but I leave 45 minutes before the gates open so I can get parking (I’m disabled and this is a must for me). I like our mornings as we get a few minutes peace to read and catch up in the car before the chaos of the day begins. I don’t end up getting home until about 9.20. So I’m out for about almost an hour and a half. It’s worse in the winter when I have to sit in the car for about 20 extra minutes when it’s frozen over.

The school walk takes us about 45 minutes in the morning. We aim to leave here at 8, get to school for quarter to 9, then I get back home about half 9 but we keep leaving here about 20 past 8 and being late and then I don't get back home till around 10 some mornings. I leave here at half 2 in the afternoon for pick up to pick them up for quarter past 3 but by the time I've actually got them out of the school, it's about 25 to 4 and they are tired on the way home, so takes us longer and we tend to get home around half 4/quarter to 5.

I'm really struggling with it to be honest. Some days I feel like I spend most of my life on school runs. I get the bus sometimes but they're expensive round here and I can't afford it every day. 😩

15 seconds 🙏🏻

Leave the house around 8:00/08:10, drop at nursery 08:20 ish then onto work for about 9am
in the summer holidays I’d be in work for about 08:40

About 35 minutes round trip - but only because DS is a slow walker and we go the nicer longer way. It would be 5 mins there at my pace.

4 minute walk

I'd move in an instant. Kids settle quickly in new schools. Benefits of local mates & walking alone in yr5/6 are huge. And think about high school transition

Was ten min walk to school, mine walked alone from summer term Yr4

Wow! Haven’t posted in years but reading this thread has made me realise just how tiring and L O N G my school run is!

It takes me and my DD 40 minutes ONE WAY! On foot. Leave the house at 8:10 and I’m back around 9:30 sometimes later. It’s a hike but I made the sacrifice as it’s such a good school and it was worth it in my eyes. She is thriving there so I can’t complain and I’m used to it now! Will be an absolute welcomed God send when I am driving though! The days I am not working from home are a nightmare as she goes to breakfast club and sometimes we have to leave the house at 6:50 for her to go in for 7:30! Not fun in the winter! Thank God she loves walking (especially in wellies!)

We put a lot of effort into playing games on our walks to school (a lot of I spy and thought provoking games surrounded by nature)

I’m tired at the prospect of the school run tomorrow already! 😂

50 mins, 45 if I’m really lucky. One drop off to secondary school.

20 second drive? Why aren't you walking that? Have you heard of climate change?

It's an hour round trip.

2 minutes there and back, it's over the road!

If I'm going on into the office, it's quite long: leave at c8.25, 12 mins walk or so to school, drop at school at 8.40, bus and tube into town, arrive at work about 9.45 or so. If WFH I'm back home by about 8.55.

1 hour, round trip.

10 mins through a lovely park!

Eldest sons private secondary is about 15 to 20 minutes away along single track lanes until the last half a kilometre, then it’s another 10/15 minutes on to youngest child’s primary school, and from there it’s a 5 minute drive home. We deliberately picked the nearest primary school as we had a choice of 4 all within 5-10
minutes drive (no schools within walking distance as we are on a farm in the sticks). We just got lucky with our eldest that there is a fantastic selective secondary school relatively nearby, and our youngest will go there too in a few years time. The school run takes me between 30-40 minutes in total depending on how many tractors we meet and whether there is a queue to drop off at eldest sons school (which has a circle route to drop off at the front of the school).

If I walk it's about 30 minutes round trip home, if I'm going into the office I tend to drive which is about the same time to my office which is further than home. It would be quicker if there was any parking that wasn't almost as far from the school as my house (I don't always have time to walk there and back then get in my car and drive back past the school to get to work in time for first meeting)