Is anybody at a school offeing the extended 15hr Nursery entitlement?

[MrsBauer]

Hi
Are there any Schools already offering this and how are you doing it?
We are supposed to be offering it from next term and are looking for ideas of how different people have done it.
If you start earlier, what happens to the siblings that start later in other parts of school and the same at the end of the day?
I have mixed Upper and Lower foundation stage, how have people sorted the different hours?

AAAAAHHHHH anyone??

Exactly Cargirl.

i think what happens, although i'm not 100% sure, the ones who don't want lunch just keep playing and those that are eating go and eat. I think lunch starts at around 11.45, and those arriving at 12 then either just play or have their lunch. The space that the foundation stage is in at our school is quite large, so they have 2 class rooms and then a large open plan space. they eat their lunch in ones of the classrooms and play in the rest of the space.

i think that lunch is allowed to be part of the session, in my experience they are only eating for around 15mins max!

Thanks for that Katz all ideas to work with

i can ask the foundation manager tomorrow if you like how it works with lunch and the like. Writing this out makes me realised i really don't know what DD2 does do all day apart from having a brilliant time! she must have a lunch break as she eats it all and tells me that her sandwich was yummy on the way home!

CarGirl - I agree it's madness!

I think that the school where I used to work is offering either 9-2 on 3 days a week, or 12 til 3, 5 days a week. I don't know what they're doing if a parent wants mornings rather than afternoons.

That would be great Katz, thanks.

manager was at a meeting today, so will ask when dd2 is back on thursday

We do the 15hr bit, but haven't adopted the flexible bit yet. So parents still choose am or pm.

am session is 8.45 - 11.45
pm session is 12.30 - 3.30

School hours are 8.50 - 3.15/3.25 so all fits toghther ok, because people never finish on time anytime anyway.

It means theres less turnover time at lunchtime and we've had to make staffing adjustments, but it seems to be working and the parents seem to like it. Don't know what will happen though when we have offer flexible hours though, I think thats the nightmare bit, easier for private nurseries than school ones.

Hi
Thanks Nettie that looks OK. My concern with the extra 15 mins at the end of the day is our parents either being stood outside my classroom door at 3.15 or just not bothering to come for any of the children in school until 3.30pm.

We're going to be sending DS to a nursery that does 15 hrs when we move. Their hours are 8.45 - 11.45 and 12.30-3.30.
Lunchtime at the school is 12-1pm so children in the nursery can stay for lunch at extra cost and get 45 minutes (which I think is reasonable)
School hours are 9am - 3.15pm but there is supervision in playground from 8.50.

They have said tha they AREN'T offering a full range of flexible hours, you can have 5 mornings or afternoons OR a mix of morning and afternoon sessions OR 2 full days 8.45- 3.30 (13 1/2 hrs) plus a couple of hours on a third day.

I think that works just fine, if you have older kids then surely you drop off the whoel lot at 8.50am, then at 3.15/3.20pm (cos they never get out on the dot of 3.15pm) collect school kids before going round to other side of playground 10 minutes later for littleuns.

In Stoke they have been offereing full days free to school nursery children for several years.

At my neice's school the hours were 8.30am - 3.00pm every day.