School nursery or normal nursery?

[romwe19]

My son will be 3 next March and will be starting nursery then (if not earlier)

There is a local school I really want to send him to which has a nursery too.

Apparently it's a hard school to get into as it's so popular.

Would it be worth emailing/phoning now asking about a nursery place for next March?

Also, does anyone have any advice/views/opinions on a normal nursery setting and a school nursery setting?

Any advice welcome ☺️

I would ring them and put his name on the waiting list!

Are you in the catchment area for the school?
Is the nursery an automatic feeder to the school? If not then you won’t be guaranteed a place at school.......

It depends what you want from nursery.. full
Time hours or term time hours?

Yes it's worth putting name on waiting list for March but as others have said being at a nursery probably won't have any bearing on getting a place at the school as that application process is separate.

It is unlikely nursery attendance influences Reception applications, so there may be no advantage. School nurseries may only have a September intake, so may not necessarily coincide with eligibility for funding.

It depends what you want from nursery. I'm keeping my dd in her non-school nursery because I need childcare that's open all year. The school nurseries / preschools are teen time only, so I'd need to then sort childcare out for the school holidays.

If he is going to nursery for preparation for school rather than you needing childcare, it's probably not that different.

The only difference near me is that the pre-school nurseries tend to have a uniform and be term time only. They also ask that you keep them in nursery in term time, and expect that you have don't take them out for holidays (I know it's not set in law, but it's what they ask).

Dd is in the pre-school room in her nursery she's still letters, numbers, starting to right her name and they follow the eyfs, so I don't think there is that much difference.

Never ever would I put a child in a school nursery. They say the follow EYFS but in reality much less play based that private nursery.
If you want you three old sat at a desk in full uniform, learning to write her name then go for it.