starting reception part time

[bunkygirl]

My ds is due to start reception next September. He's a summer birthday so not sure about him going full time from the off. I know he could just go mornings or defer completely until after Christmas but that's going to be difficult to manage with work. We were wondering about sending him four days and keeping him off on a Friday as he currently goes to nursery 2 days so wouldn't be such a leap. I know school may not be best pleased about this but is there anything they could actually so to stop us? pleased about this but us there

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My daughter's school offered, but advised against part time, as part timers soon will ask to be allowed to stay with their full time friends.

If push comes to shove, then they won't be able to stop you, at least. FIL he's statutory school age.

But you really don't want it to come to that. You need to talks o the school's not the structure of its week, what they and you see as the most important parts, and then take it from there.

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If push comes to shove, then they won't be able to stop you, at least until he's statutory school age.

But you really don't want it to come to that. You need to talk to the school about the structure of its week, what they and you see as the most important parts, and then take it from there.

Going 4 days instead of 5 seems a bit pointless to me.
He'll be amongst all the other children in the same position even some who are at less of an advantage and have never attended nursery before.

Iam sure he'll be fine full time. It's a scary prospect but soon it won't be optional so why not get him used to it ASAP?

I think you have the right to request a part time placement but not sure if you can stipulate days in or out iyswim

My summer born ds has just started reception part time. His teachers were happy for him to do just mornings. I had hoped ds could do 3 days a week but his teachers didn't want him to miss any mornings as they said when children have missed whole days they have fallen behind. The morning is when they do their literacy/numeracy.

It's a bit of a pain having to be around to pick them up at lunchtime as you don't get time to do much in the morning before you're back off to school again. But I don't believe my son is ready for a full week of school yet. We will review it again at half term but at the moment he is very happy to come home early!

To answer your question OP I'm not sure that there is anything they can do if you say you are going to miss Fridays, but at our school they advised me against it.

Thanks for all the speedy replies. I will of course talk to school about it before we make any final decisions but was just interested to know if anyone else has done it and what school thought of it. if we did decide to do it, we would review it at half term and Christmas and if ds wanted to change to five days.

Yes the school should offer full time, part time or joining the school late. Not many schools are open about the options available though but they should be.

A child doesn't have to actually be in school till the term after their 5th birthday.

We have a summer born DS who was part time throughout reception.

My dd is summer born and started part time. We did 5 mornings then built up to full time by autumn half term, because she wanted to. She did lots of half days before Christmas too because I was in hospital. She has made friends just fine and is in the top groups so no issues with missing learning.

DS did part time - three full days a week and it worked out great. The school were fine about it.