is this worth suggesting to my dd's nursery

[witchwithallthetrimmings]

My dd nursery (lovely place) opens all year and has recently moved to a system where you get no holiday (so if your child is away you still have to pay). This is a big change from 4 years ago where you had to opt in to put your child in during school holiday times. This (obviously) has created a lot of resentment and has priced it beyond the reach of many people. My suggestion would be that they should offer the choice of having a full year place or a term time only place and use the spare capactity to run a holiday club for under 8s (something that our workplace desperately needs). What do you all think?

I think that's a great idea. My DS's nursery offers term-time only places and you can opt-in to holiday time if you want. It means that there are free spaces in the hols for older children and it is always full.

You can suggest it to the manager but I can't see the manager seeing it in the same way and replacing the fees they are charging for children who may not even use their place in the school hols with kids who will be in pretty much FT.

Much more likely if there is a need for a holiday club and they have the space to put one on they will do that in addition to their arrangements of all year round care fees.

I hope that rambling makes sense!

I'm sure the nursery would rather have the consistency of normal year round care rather that having to advertise every holiday and fiddle about with staffing.

TBH staffing holiday clubs is a complete nightmare.......sorry

My sons nursery offers full time or term time only so you choose at the start of the year which one you sign up for. I'd def.say its worth suggesting as quite a few other nurseries offer this flexibility so no reason why they cant.

We actually looked for a term time only nursery, and so didnt even consider those that only offered full time, as just seems a waste of money if your not going to use it

My nursery charge for when you are away on holidays and also take in older kids over the school holidays. They get a double payment that way don't they! I am not sure you will convince nursery manager...