2 days preschool & 3 days nursery

[Blanketandcandles]

What is your view on such an education for a 3-4 year old?

I am thinking my DS to go 2 days in a preschool from next September and 3 days at the nursery. This will be for 1 year only until he starts reception.

I am thinking of doing this so as to have a more structured and phonics/numbers focused education at preschool while at the same time he will enjoy the play/arts/crafts part at the nursery.

Has anyone tried that? Would it be too much for a kid to be in 2 settings? Will it benefit him or not?

Any opinion is very welcome!

My DD did 5 days at a pre school room in the nursery as i still needed the full hours.

Why do you want to do a seperate pre school, when the nursery will have a pre school room anyway?

His nursery has a room from 2-4 year olds. So 2-3 and 3-4 year olds are in the same classroom. His nursery is also very child led focused, more of a Montessori approach.

I am not sure if he will have the foundations needed for reception… reason why I thought of introducing preschool, although I am not sure if it will be too much for him!

I’m not sure if the benefit, pre school
and nursery should be covering the same curriculum. The nursery will probably do some letters and numbers work the year before school anyway (it will all be revised in reception anyway) and the pre school should certainly be doing arts and free play stuff as well as more formal learning.

i think I’d find this quite disruptive as would the child. My child’s preschool often has special events on a Friday (it’s part of a school) and I always take my daughter in specially although that’s not our day, because otherwise I feel she’d miss out (eg rehearsed all week for a song but wouldn’t get to perform in assembly).

I work in a child led preschool. We do lots of arts and crafts, stories, free play etc as do most other preschools that I know of. We also explore numeracy/shapes/rhyming/phonics/mark making.
Both nursery and preschool should be doing all of this. I'd be very wary of a preschool that wants children to sit at tables and 'learn'.

I wouldn't advise it. Two lots of staff, different building, children, ethos, routines, resources etc. keep them at one setting. They will learn all about letter sounds and numbers in reception x

Is the pre school attached to the school where he will attend school? I work in a school and our pre school is great as the kids are involved in a school life ie assemblies, carol services etc so when it comes to reception it is not such a jump.

Obviously pre schools compared to nurseries only offer 9-3 and are term time only. Pre schools are difficult as they don't always work for the working parent. We have a few children who do a mixture of pre school and nursery.

Both pre-school and nursery will follow the same curriculum so there isn't really any benefit in this approach.

Personally, I'd keep him with the Montessori approach, but either would be fine, not both.

My 3 year old does 3 settings.

Preschool 2 days a week in the village with the children she will start school with.
Private day nursery 1 day a week because Preschool only opens 4 days and their closed day is a day I need childcare on.
Breakfast and after school club as a wraparound on her preschool days.

She copes absolutely fine, is well adjusted and flexible and happy to be left at activities etc without me.

My 6 year old son would have struggled with it and still wont stay at an activity without me.

Ds went to the school nursery where we knew he would go to the primary school but continued at the private nursery one session a week to give me some flexibility in school hols.

In hindsight I wish I'd just sent him to the school nursery more.

The school nursery did lots of stuff the private nursery didn't and he met a lot of the children he started school with. School nursery really got them ready for school shame the actual school was a huge disappointment after the super nursery