As the title says, I am trying to decide what to do about DS's nursery. He will turn 3 in October so his nursery have been asking what I want him to do now, keep him at his normal (private) nursery or enrol him for sessions at the preschool one. I have asked several times for them to explain the differences both re play, education and financial implications etc but I am so confused.
He has attended his nursery since age 1, he goes 2 full days a week while we work and he seems happy there and has made a lot of wee pals. As far as I know the 3-5 class have a teacher and do the same things that the preschool nuresry would do.
The preschool nursery is attached to the primary school that he will go to so an advantage may be that he will attend with kids he will go to school with. (However, his current nursery is also very local so most kids in his class will go to his primary anyway I reckon). If he was to go to the preschool nursery though, he would only be able to attend a session a day (ie, morn or afternoon) which would mean the private nursery would need to take him there and drop him off (so we would still need to pay the private nursery anyway...).
Not sure what to do! I think he will be subsidised for 5 preschool sessions by the government but if we need to pay the private nursery to drop him off etc then it's a bit pointless putting him into preschool (??).
Can anyone shed any light on this, I can't get my head round it at all!