I'm bloody fuming! Help me choose childcare to sort out this situation!!

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My dd (6) is in the local primary school. my ds2 will be joining her part-time in the nursery class in September.

We were asked to select a preference - morning or afternoon session. I choose the moring as dd already there. Have spoken to the Secretary at the school a few times and she told me that they will always try to place children in the moring session if they already have a sibling in the school. Great, makes sense.

Recieved list yesterday, he's in the afternoon. Spoke to Head to ask if the 28 morning pupils all had siblings in the school, she said that was not the policy of the school, she had never heard of this, the list had been made, so tough (basically)!

He finishes at 3.15 and my dd finishes at 3.30, so I need somebody to pick him up from school too.

I am fuming, what can I do about this?

My lovely nanny is leaving to do her pgce in August, so now I have to sort out childcare around this bloody mess. I really didnt want to employ a new full time nanny for this year. Any advice appreciated xx

Do you know any other the mums of the children who have been offered an AM place, and would they be happy to swap? It's always worth asking.
Also, ask at school if someone drops out, and this is a definate possibility as many parents put their lo's name down at more than one nurery/reception, then could you have first refusal.

What was your plan if he did get into the morning session? It sounds as if he would have needed care from maybe noon time anyway if he got into the morning session, so you would have had a nanny from lunchtime to when you got home from work? Having him in the afternoon session sounds like a PITA because presumably you now need nanny for the morning, then she has a few hours free and starts again at school pick-up. However, even when my ds2 was in nursery, I kept my nanny on fulltime because we still needed cover for the inevitable sickness, inset days, days when the water main burst at school and also so that we had fulltime cover for the holidays. It was more expensive than I wanted but I had peace fo mind and we then went to after-school nanny only when ds2 started in reception. But that of course brought its own problems with lack of cover for all of the above ....

Surely whoever picks up your dd could go 15 mins earlier and collect ds then wait 10-15 mins for dd to come out of school too.

Was going to have a part-time nanny in the afternoon only.

Good idea BradfordMum. I'll give them a call now x

Ah, I was right, the plan was afternoon nanny only, what was the back-up for those endless holidays and other days off? You may find that for the year ds is in part-time nursery a full-time nanny is worth it anyway - we certainly did.