Ratios

[whattodo2019]

What ratios is your nursery working to?
I am interested to hear from nurseries

Sorry it posted before I had finished..
I'm also interested to find out more about nursery's in pre-prep schools

1:3 in the 0-1 room
1:4 in the 2 year old room
1:8 in the preschool room

same as @nickMarlow in my nursery. This is the legal ratio requirement so you will find that is should be the same everywhere. I think the only exception might be if the nursery preschool had a qualified teacher it can go up to 1:13 (altho as a manager in my nursery i probably would not leave 1 person with 13 preschool children as this is ridiculous).

Same as previous posters
We do use the 1-13 sometimes to cover lunches and staff sick days, if we can’t get cover from elsewhere

As above. Keep in mind it’s building ratio so staff can be moved about if some are asleep etc.

Same as above. We have a qualified teacher in my nursery so she works on a 1:13 ratio if needed. Today she had 14 and we had 6 2-3 year olds so we mixed the ratios and worked together 20 children and 3 staff members

My DC old nursery does 1:3 in baby room, 1:4 in toddlers and 1:6 in pre-school.

In a pre prep. 1:4 in the 2 year olds room.

Forgot to say the 3 year olds room has a qualified teacher so they can have 1:13 but in reality they have more staff than that.

0-2 have to have a separate area and a 1:3 ratio with the room leader being at least L3 early years qualified and a baby care element in their qualification I can't remember the rest of the specification on qualifications in the baby room.
2-3yrs are on a 1:4 ratio and at least 50% of the staff should hold a relevant early years qualification
3-5yrs are on a 1:8 ratio again 50% of staff should be qualified. You can move children down ratios but not up. Eg so a 4 year old can be in a 1:4 ratio but a 2 year old can't be in a 1:8 ratio and as far as I know you can only put preschool children in a 1:13 ratio. Look up the early years framework this is a legal document which is what all nurseries have to adhere to. It is a long document but it is there.

I have a level 6 qualification so I can be left with 1-13 3-5 year olds, But the nursery I am in tries to stick to 1-8.. Nursery classes with a qualified teacher can be different but they don,t have babies.