August baby and preschool?

[Sunny866]

Hi
my DS is turning 3 in August and has a place at the very local preschool attached to a school with the free 30 hours so we won’t be paying anything. I am also pregnant so it will help a great deal with money and drop offs as it’s only down the road. We also want him to go to that school when he starts reception.
He is currently at a private nursery and is fine there. He is fully conversant and quite independent apart from potty training which we aren’t having much luck with but will keep trying. He has to be trained by the time he starts preschool.
I just keep worrying that he is a bit too young being an August baby and if the day would be too long for him (he still often has an afternoon nap)
Does anyone have any experience of August babies starting preschool at 3 years old and how they found it?
thank you

DC2 was an August baby and they were fine, plus there will be August babies in every intake, it will be something that they're used to

Thank you for the reassurance

My August boy struggled with the length of the day so I picked him up at 12.30 and then we'd head home and he'd nap. He only dropped his nap when he started reception. My youngest (not an August baby) isn't in preschool yet, but when I enquired, they did say she could finish early some or all days and she didn't have to do the full 30 hours. Is that an option for your son? Maybe even alternating and having two shorter days where he could nap might help if he finds it too much?

Re potty training, he potty trained in the May and started in the September. We did the 'oh crap' method. Did involve me taking a few days off as we needed to stay home and follow the method, but he cracked it really quick so it was worth it. Def recommend the 'oh crap' method!

Hi. No unfortunately it is either 15 hours or 30 hours. We can’t do 15 hours as we would struggle with the pick ups in the afternoons. It’s not an option to do shorter days. I think we will try and phase the nap out in the summer and see how it goes.
I have read about the oh crap method. When we tried a few weeks ago it seems he just doesn’t know when he ‘needs’ to go. He just peed on the floor/sofa etc and then cried about it!

It dosent matter if the are an August baby in pre school. It works differently to reception, in school nursery they have 3 intakes, summer, after Christmas and Easter where they take in the newly turned 3 year olds. ( One of mine was 3 in December and started school nursery age 3 in January)The staff are very used to dealing with this age group.

Hi Plumbear. I did think as much but when we did the application form they said there was only one intake for the whole year and that was September

The Oh Crap method does involve them largely peeing on the floor the first day. It tends to start kicking in by the end of the day and they get the hang of it the second day and third day.