DD (3) has gone to a private nursery since she was 11 months old. It's a good nursery (by my judgement and Ofsted's) and she has alway been happy and confident there, has a lovely group of friends and likes the carers.She moved up to the preschool room in the summer. They have a lot of fun there, painting, singing, hunting for bugs in the mud etc. Phonics once a week, no maths that I can make out. It can be quite chaotic, although maybe that's inevitable in a room filled with 20+ three year olds 😵💫
Her birthday is 1st September so she'll be doing 2 years of pre school. Most of her friends are August/July born so will go to school before her and I'm worried she'll be sad when they leave (currently seeing it in a few of the kids who were born in autumn 2019 and their friends have gone off to school 😔). Also, there are quite a few school nurseries around here which are more structured, more emphasis on phonics amd maths etc, and I wonder if that would be good for her? On the negative side, if she went to a school nursery we'd obviously have to cover holidays which we don't at the moment.
Should I move her to a school nursery or not? Any thoughts would be appreciated!