To not understand who uses this nursery?

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There is a nursery in my area, it takes children from 6 months but the baby room (6 months - walking) had only 2 kids on the day we visited. It’s open term time only (I’m a teacher that’s the only reason I’m even looking).

it’s got me thinking who is using this, surely it’s only teachers, SAHM parents and those with au pairs or nanny’s? How is it viable?

We have opted against it as the term time only is way too restrictive and I’d have liked to keep sending DD two days a week in the summer.

Would you have used this?
AIBU to wonder how they fill their numbers when they are so restrictive?

I suspect some of its viability comes from being able to attract staff who have school aged children. If they can rent out the space for holiday clubs (or have a term time only contract themselves) that's money saving.

Also there are not just teachers but TAs, LSAs, school office staff on TTO plus a lot of councils also offer TTO contracts as well aa parents who are students themselves.

DS went to a nursery with two branches, the one we used which was open 8am - 6:30pm, and then another around the corner in a more expensive area which was 9-3, term time only.

The people who used it were either SAHMs, or had an older child in school and already had an after school nanny/au pair.

I think you've pretty much pinpointed who will use it - people who only want a place during term times because they either aren't working, work (or study) term time only or have existing wrap-around care for older children. It'll be a narrower audience than a classic 8am - 6pm, year round nursery, but for those who want it it'll likely work out cheaper as it will only offer the hours/months they need and so will be a more appealing option. It wouldn't work for me at all but I can think of three or four people I know off the top of my head who would be thrilled to have this option, and another half a dozen or so for whom it could potentially work.

I worked full time but used a term time only nursery because it was by far the best option in the area!

Yep, plenty more people work TTO than just teachers! Bear in mind too it could be either parent, or maybe even a grandparent.

We used one which was TTO in West Hampstead. I was a locum optometrist for a bit and could pick and choose hours and didn’t want to work in the school holidays.

worked perfectly.

I send my DS to a nursery that is open all year round but he goes term time only. There are quite a few that go tend time only, some are children of teachers. For us we have another child at school.