Can anyone explain when ds will go to school, I'm baffled

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Ds' birthday is in august (he's two this time) the catholic school he will go to doesn't have a nursery so apparently he will have to do his '16' hours at his current nursery. (nursery manager has confirmed this)

So will ds go to school from the sept after his 4th birthday? Surely not after his 5th?

Thanks in advance!

Storm -do you mean a day nursery? If so then yes that's completely different than a nursery class or a nursery school. They tend to have admissions procedures that are rather like reception admissions, but administered by the school. Because they have teachers where private nurseries/daycare often don't then the places can be fairly sought-after, despite often being for 5x half days. alternatively you can use the 15hrs as part of childcare with somewhere like a private nursery and they just knock it off your bill.

I do pesto, so I assume he will stay there then to reception at school.

I don't know why I thought school nurseries were run by nursery nurses rather than teachers, I'm very out of touch.

There are several state secondary schools around here with private nurseries on their site. So it might not be a state nursery school, but private nurseries can be used for your free hours of nursery education. In fact most provision is from private providers, eg. Pre-schools etc.
Do check the entry requirements for the primary you want, and make sure you have second third and even more choices,just in case.

Thanks SN, that's really clear. So you can make them hold the place vacant for you until, say, summer half term, or maybe even the last day of the summer term? But you can't defer all the way to September of the next school year.

I wonder if the school gets funding for any deferred children.

The general working practice is that "later in the year" means they must start at some point in the reception year if you have applied for a reception place, and this should also include April starts. Given that the summer term is usually pretty short, and then is followed by the longer holiday, I think it would be disproportionately confusing to start later than April.

If you do not take up a reception place at all, then you will need to reapply for year 1 place.