Need help with a decision please

[MmeMorph]

My youngest is a reception starter at a school which is flexible about days and half days. She is 4.5 and very small for her age. She sleeps twelve hours a night (6:45 pm - 6:45 am) and has a pretty decent diet and exercise level.

She has been doing M, W, F full days and the other two half days. But she has been SHATTERED.

This week she went Monday full-day, Tuesday off sick (but "24 hour rule" from a random vomit on Monday night, wasn't really ill), half day Wednesday, half day today (Thursday). I had to take her somewhere in the car just now and she fell asleep! She is just so tired from it all.

So I can't decide whether to leave her in for a full or half day tomorrow. And I can't decide what is best to do moving forward. The teacher is maternity cover for this term and very smiley and supportive of my choices but not giving much guidance herself.

At home with me she just potters, has been doing cutting, gluing and drawing this afternoon. I quite like having her here really, but the decision needs to be about her not me!

She wavers when asked what she wants, and I think I am at a point where I am just confusing her by bringing it up, I really need to make an adult decision on her behalf.

Any advice, please?

Not sure I can offer much, but perhaps she needs an afternoon nap straight after school? Then perhaps to bed a little later, say 7.30 and then get up a bit later - is that possible or do you have to get up at 6.45 to get to school etc? Some children do need a lot more sleep than others.

Also the car can often induce sleep whether they are seriously tired or not.

Thanks, yes, agree re car journeys inducing sleep. I should have said it is not just in the car. We have found her collapsed on the sofa most weekend days since she started.

I will think about the nap and later bedtime idea.

Right now the morning/evening process works well with all the others in the household. (e.g. if she is asleep at 6:45 I can have time alone with my son doing his books, and also we only have one bathroom so things are carefully calibrated to not annoy DHin the mornings!!). Doesn't mean it couldn't do with re-thinking of course.

Thanks.