hello, I’m after some advice regarding changing nurseries for our two LO’s - shy daughter who will be 3 in March, very confident son who is 1.5yrs old. They both go to the same nursery full time but the fees have been raised again to an eye watering amount (£3500 per month for both of them) and so we have started to look at other options. We saw another nursery today that we liked which would save us about £700 per month so not an insignificant amount. It’s much bigger than the one we go to at present and we were really impressed with the room leads and the fact that they had lots of different rooms and spaces for smaller group activities which we think suit our daughter better. In her current setting, it’s very small in comparison and I think she finds it quite overwhelming. I wouldnt say she loves it there, not hates it, but tbh it’s hard to say either way as we can’t go in and see her in situ due to COVID.
My son is very confident and gets stuck in straight away and we think he settled in very quickly, compared to our daughter.
Anyway we were given confirmation that the nursery we visited earlier today can fit both our LO’s in from Jan next year. However, we are also planning on moving out of London to the countryside in the next year to access better schools and fresh air etc. So this would mean uprooting them again and changing nursery setting within 9-12 months.
The cost saving of this other nursery is significant AND we felt it would better suit our daughter as well as son, as the room he would move into is so much bigger and there are more activities. But we’re concerned about the effect of two nursery changes in a short time.
Can anyone offer any advice? Is it best to suck up the extra cost and stick with the ridiculously expensive nursery until we move out of London or just switch and hope our LO’s don’t find it too unsettling/ do all we can to support them through it?