Part-time nursery place - is Tue, Wed, Thu possible?

[thomasina1]

I have found out that if I want a 3 day week, our nursery only allows Mon, Tue, Wed OR Wed, Thu, Fri. My company has asked me to work Tue, Wed, Thur. Aaargh. Before I go back and tell my boss, just wanted to canvas other's nursery's policies - is this pretty standrard do people think?

not standard but they may roster more staff on and activities around that pattern.

Private nurseries should allow all combinations. I used to do Monday, Thursday, Friday.

Should have said, I have experience of 2 nurseries and this wasn't a problem at either of them.

Not at the nursery my DS used to go to - he did Mon, Tues, Thurs. I have never heard of them insisting you only do certain days.

Thanks for the quick replies! Oh dear, looks like I may need to start investigating other nurseries...

It would be be great to hear other's experiences, particularly those in London (not sure that this makes any difference though!)

My nursery will allow any combination ... but Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are definitely the busiest days and therefore (presumably) the hardest days to get an available session.

You can see why - everyone would want this pattern if they could, so they can have long weekends away without losing work/nursery days, and nurseries would end up with a very uneven balance through the week. Our nursery doesn't say you can't do this, but in practice it's very hard to get these days as everyone wants them.

But, if your work is saying you have to do those days, you could try telling the nursery that and see what they say.

Or you could try a CM, a lot of CM's only work those days.

look for another nursery!
they are there for your convenience, not theirs!
our nursery does any combination of days that parents request, space allowing