3 yo DS is in nursery 1 day a week. I wanted him to go to the pre school in our village for the following reasons: more stimulation and interaction with other kids, pre school is attached to the primary school he will probably go to, I thought it would be good for him to get used to going to the setting and possibly meet kids he will go to school with. Pre school would also be free for us under the 30 hours childcare but nursery can only offer 15 hours free, and they don’t have much availability for him to go to more sessions, they do have some but it might involve some juggling.
But I visited the pre school today and whilst the kids seemed happy enough, the manager who showed me round seemed bored and disinterested, didn’t talk much and I just didn’t get a good vibe.
We are very happy with his nursery and am thinking of just increasing his hours there instead . But I don’t want him to miss out on going to pre school for the reasons I gave above. Am I overthinking this? Thoughts?