My November born 4yo dd is refusing to go to preschool. She currently goes 5 days, 9-3pm.
It’s the village preschool, run in the church hall. Very competent staff (managed by an ex deputy head) but quite small, with only a tiny outside space.
She has been there nearly 2 years, this is her last year before moving to the village primary school.
Her general level of learning and talking is good, there are no suspicions of neurodivergence. Behaviour also good.
As one of the oldest in the preschool, my suspicion is that she’s bored/unfulfilled? At home she plays with her 7 yo sister and they can be fairly sophisticated with their games. She goes to ballet and riding lessons and loves it. I fear that preschool babyish and condescending
She says that she ‘wants to stay with her family’ - her dad and I both work from home so she thinks she can stay and chill/play. I’ve tried explaining that we need to do work but obviously that doesn’t really make sense to a 4yo. And of course we can’t properly work if she’s home.
She only has 5 months to go so I doubt I’d get a place at another nursery, most have wait lists, and also this place is the feeder for the village primary so she’d miss the introductory sessions etc.
Sometimes bribery works (“I’ll put a cupcake in your lunch!”) but obviously that’s not sustainable.
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas really? Anything I can suggest to preschool?
I can probably drop her days to 3.5 or 4, but much less would be tricky