How important is it for a child to be at a nursery attached to the school?

[NotMyCircusButMyMonkey]

DS is 3, his birthday was in July. He is currently attending a private nursery full time, but I would like to get him in the nursery attached to the school I’m hoping he will attend. They can offer 15hrs but across 5 days morning only from 8.40am until just before 12.

Being a school nursery they don’t offer paid for childcare - so he would need go into private nursery for 8am, get driven to school nursery, get picked back up at lunchtime and spend the rest of the day at private nursery until I get him around 4.45pm.

It feels like a lot of running around for him, not to mention it will cost me a fortune in pick up/drop off costs and extra hours.

He knows a few of the kids who will be going to that school. But also there’s no guarantee he’ll get in there for Reception. It’s close by, but not the closest school.

So, I am wondering how important you think it is for a child to go to a nursery attached to a school? Will it be a huge shock if he starts school after 3 years in a different nursery?

For various reasons each of my 4 children went to different nurseries/pre-schools to each other, and none of them attached to the primary school they then went to. All settled in to reception immediately and flourished and made new friends quickly.

Not very important at all I'd say they cover the same stuff in private Nurserys number sbd phonics etc

I don’t think any of our local schools even have a nursery attached to it! So totally normal to not attend one IMO!

The government are obsessed atm with telling parents that school nurseries are better. Ignore them. They're idiots wrong.

I came here to say that it can be beneficial as they move up with their friends, but I'd imagine in this particular scenario less so. Most working parents cannot manage that so I'm sure lots of DC planning to go to that school will leave DC in private nursery until school. My DD did a mix of private nursery and pre school so she had somewhere to go in the school holidays, but most of the DC in her reception class went to pre school at the school. But they offer full days, and the DC can join the rest of the school at breakfast and afterschool club if needed.