Which nursery to select for references?

[basmum1234]

My prospective school requires references (progress report) from my child's nursery, but my son attends two:

1. he has been attending it since he was a few months old
2. he has been attending it for the past 2 months, but it has a better reputation

Which nursery should I select? Is nursery reputation more important or longer history? I won't be able to see the report and I am not sure which one will be more favourable.

Is this for entry to an independent school? I would go for nursery 1 (the one he went to since infancy).

They can provide greater examples of his progress and hopefully he is well known to them and they like him and will want to write a great reference.

Unless he has some problems that only resolved recently, in which case go for nursery 2 who won't know anything about them

For such young children I doubt there is much to it, they will surely just want a report saying your son in well behaved and ready to learn.

A reference from somewhere he’s only attended two months won’t be able to say much. I’d go with the nursery he attended longer assuming you think they’ll write something positive

If the school is really influenced by which nursery your child attended, I'm not sure I'd want my child going there.
As Cakes says, they probably just want to know that his behaviour is okay and he is ready to learn.

I'd assume they just want to know if the child is within normal range? Maybe they are screening for SEN?
Does your child need extra help etc?!?

Thank you all for the responses! I have submitted the form listing the first nursery (and mentioning the other).

I do hope that they are just checking for any serious deficiencies, although they did indicate they will be testing counting, number recognition, writing, sequencing, reciting nursery rhymes etc (a lot of language based tests which my trilingual child will likely struggle with...) It's a popular private school.