Nursery early closing NYE!

[OneCoralFinch]

Just venting. DH has taken DC to nursery today, we’re both working as normal. Nursery is usually open till 6, DH finishes 5:30, me at 6. Nursery worker casually drops into the conversation at drop off that they’re hoping to close at 4 today. No warning or communication about this at all from the nursery in the lead up to NYE. So now DH has to see if there’s a way of finishing 2 hours early to pick up DS. Not easy as loads of colleagues are taking holidays, my colleagues too so we’re thin on the ground. I get the nursery wanting to get away earlier but surely they need to give proper notice of their plans and not just leave it till the bloody morning to tell parents? They asked us to let them know before Christmas which days we were sending the kids in so they could work out staffing numbers but never mentioned anything about closing earlier

I'm also amazing they're open today!
I agree with pp, it sounds like they're being hopeful.

If you can't do it, you can't do it.

I'm also amazing they're open today!
I agree with pp, it sounds like they're being hopeful.

If you can't do it, you can't do it.

Ours is open and closing early but nursery manager emailed all parents before Xmas to say that they were ‘hoping’ to close an hour early on NYE and asked parents to let her know if they needed childcare 5pm - 6pm that evening as, if they did, they would work out cover accordingly.

No money back, as phrased as the above it’s our choice to collect them at 5pm, but we had plenty of notice and the option to keep them there until 6pm as per usual. I don’t begrudge it, a lot of the staff are young and I remember how big a deal NYE was back then spending this year’s watching TV with my mum, not bitter 😂

I’m a terrible parent, mine are going in and DH and I are off out for lunch 😂 (first lunch a deux since the summer though so I refuse to feel guilty!)

The one behind me is closed between 23rd and 3rd, 2 full weeks but it's in the agreement. My neighbour is currently trying to occupy his dd in the garden as her mum is working from home, they are popping around here in a bit as she likes my tree

Another one that's shocked you have a nursery that's open - my sons (and every other one I know of round here) shut on the 23rd and reopens on the 2nd!

That being said, they can't decide on the day they want to shut early, so you'll be fine to pick up at the normal time!

Nope. Op is putting that pressure on herself for a conversation she wasn’t even involved in.
That nursery most likely is on skeleton staff and shift work. The nursery worker could have been told she can go home early if enough children get picked up and there will be other staff still working. It’s probably already occurred for all the staff at one time during the Christmas period and it’s her turn.
If there a children still in the nursery, even just one a staff member will be there.
The nursery worker didn’t say anything wrong.

That's ops issue, if she feels that.

On occasion, DD was the only child booked into closing time on aFriday. They let us know, and one of us would be there as soon as we could. They told is as she was alone.

DD actually quite liked those days... she helped set up activities for the babies and toddlers for the next week.

If neither of you can pick up earlier then they can carry on "hoping" can't they? The nursery can't charge for a full day and yet be unwilling to provide a full day.

My kids are way past nursery age now but my eldest's nursery was open between Christmas and new year and yet the manager would try and persuade parents every year not to send the kids in that week. There was no refund or price reduction option so if we needed/wanted the service we jolly well used it.

Two years running we were notified that nursery would be closing at midday on Christmas Eve and 3pm on NYE (both working days). I checked the T&Cs and there was no provision for this so I calculated the cost of the hours they weren't providing and deducted it from the month's fee. They weren't happy but couldn't argue I was wrong to do so. They did ask me not to tell the other parents what I'd done in case "they got ideas".

I will probably get told I'm mean and petty but honestly if I told my clients I would not be doing their legal work on certain days "because Christmas/NY" but would send them a bill for my time anyway, there would be uproar and rightly so.

I'm just jealous that your nursery is open at all - ours is closed for 2 weeks over christmas and new year!

Make the most of the fact they’re even open! If most of the staff are younger then NYE is probably important to them (I remember those days!) and thought they’d mention it in the hope of finishing early, can’t say I blame them.

Yeah, its understandable they might wish to close earlier Today, but they should have made this clear weeks ago imo.

Parents need to work obviously but I wouldn't begrudge the nursery trying to close early if they can. It is NYE after all and often the staff are young! If lots of kids have older siblings at school they might have parents on annual leave anyway.

😂😂 poor staff? Give over, it's a normal working day