Nursery offering discount for extra sessions, normal??

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Good evening all, the nursery our little girl attends are offering discounts on extra sessions all through a month for Mondays.
My daughter already attends the Monday sessions therefore will not be granted the discount as its for extra sessions only.
I feel a little hard done by with this announcement, am I right to feel this way or am I missing something?

Presumably it's because they have space and not enough people contracted - they're probably hoping it'll get parents in the habit of utilising the extra sessions and then they'll add it contracted.

I can get feeling a bit put off but they're not really doing anything wrong. Just keep your fingers crossed that at some point they offer discounted days for a day you'd enjoy sending her as 'extra.'

Presumably they've got spare capacity on a Monday and are trying to encourage people to whom an extra day wouldn't be worth paying for at full rate to consider it, before they look at cutting staff hours, which may then cause staff to leave.

Our nursery is £100 a day. I have two days a week off as I consider the time with my DS worth more than the circa £60 a day of wages I'd ultimately take home for each extra day. If nursery offered me Fridays for £50, meaning I took home £110 of my wages, it would be worth considering.

I would assume they have one extra child that means for the ratios they need an extra staff member, so are trying to get some extra money to get up to ratio for the staff.

Eg I think the ratio for 2 year olds is 1:5? So maybe they have 11 children signed up on a Monday, meaning they need 3 staff members. But can take an additional four without needing to pay for another staff member. At the moment they're paying a full day of wages for just one child to attend.

Thanks all, never really thought of it that way. It does make sense though 😊

When DS was at nursery they always published ad hoc free sessions. These were either odd days that hadn't been sold due to days that parents needed but they also 'resold' holidays notified in advance. They were open about this as it helped to keep the fees down.