Term time only nurseries

[DrinkingAllTheGin]

FTM and just getting my head around nursery options.
Near me there are a couple of term time only nurseries and one year round nursery.
The term time ones are half the price of All year.

What do other parents do if they font work in education if bubs goes to term time only?
(I am aware we will have this issue for years to come! )

Term time nurseries in my area reflect school hours so are only open 9am to 3pm.
Private nurseries are open 7am to 6pm to meet the demands of working parents.

Same in this area. How do people manage this with work? !

My DS is at one of these nurseries. He just does 9-12 currently. Most families have a non-working parent.

What do other parents do if they font work in education if bubs goes to term time only?

I think they generally don't send them to a term time nursery, unless they have a parent who isn't working, or a parent who only works term time.

We immediately discounted any term time nurseries, as they don't provide what we need.

Either parents don’t work or their already using a mixture of parents taking alternative holidays and unlaid parental leave to cover the holidays.

My DD goes to a term time only, I assume most of the mums are like me and stay at home.

Around this area there are nurseries open all year round and pre-schools open during school hours and term time only. I went searching for a nursery that was open 8-6 that allowed term time only contracts as a teacher as I felt it was a waste of money paying for childcare when I'm perfectly capable of looking after my child. If you want to work outside of school hours you will most likely need to use a nursery that is open all year round.

Term time only is for people who have grandparents willing to do pick up and tea, sahps and those with very flexible jobs. I do know someone who used to pick up at 3pm then work 2 hours after the child was in bed, but personally I would have struggled to cope with that!

Grandparents, nanny…

We manage by taking holidays on different weeks to maximise having someone at home, and my parents and in laws help. I'm only part time which makes things easier.

There are some holiday clubs available but they usually just cover school hours anyway.

It's so frustrating as the all year round nursery costs as much a day as I earn.

Parents reliant on nursery only for childcare so they can work tend not to go for term-time only nurseries. If you don’t have flexibility at work/grandparent willing to step in, then those nurseries would be suitable for you and you’d go for one that’s open all year.

We don’t send DS to a term time only nursery for that reason. There is an amazing term time only nursery near us, and several others, but very few all year round nurseries. As much as we would love to send DS to the amazing nursery, it just won’t work for us so we have to send him to an average all year round nursery.

But that's the childcare you require? If you choose the other nursery (which is probably more like a pre school for 3 year olds rather than day care for babies) then you are still going to need wrap around care or cut your hours surely?

My son goes to term time nursery and alot of the children are collected by childminders or grandparents. Then a handful of parents who wfh.

Usually a SAHP or there’s nanny or au pair, sometimes there’s even both! Childminder could also be an option but they don’t seem to be much of a thing in our area. The school nursery near us takes from 2.5, and they offer wrap around there to extend the day though. Then once they’re 3 they have some options for holiday clubs, but they’re not usually all day (think 10-3) so you’d need a flexible job, GP on standby or nanny to make that work!

Well, obviously the term time only places are used by people who either work term time only, or who have a SAHP.

Not sure why that is confusing.

Nor why the fact that someone looking after your child for twice as many hours is likely to cost twice as much.

But that's the childcare you need 🤷🏼‍♀️

But I presume you need the childcare so don’t have any other options!

Term time nurseries here are preschools for children who will start primary school next year. Education rather than childcare. Very different to daycare nurseries - they won't take babies, full-time finishes at 1pm and the ratios are higher. They're used by most families but families with two working parents will have wraparound care from daycare nurseries, child minders or grandparents.

Daycare nursery is very expensive, it's painful. There is tax free childcare which softens the blow a little.

My useless ex boss had a term time place, she worked full time. She did also use a childminder but she frequently didn’t have childcare, rang in sick, and even brought her child into work.

We use one because we have an older child in school and my husband cut back his self employed work to be at home when the kids aren’t in school.

The ones all around us are from the age of 2.

As with PP the only term time nurseries around here are those attached to primary schools. If you need full time year round you need to use the private nurseries or a mix of the school nurseries and childminders. Private nurseries will often offer termtime only as well for funded children.

For some it will depend on childcare arrangements for older children during the holidays as well.

Loads round here take from 2. Many stand alone TTO nursery schools but also my kids school has an upper and lower nursery class so they do 2 years there and start at 2.