Primary (apparently) only offering mornings - nursery has afternoon place but is it funded?

[ASecretLemonadeDrinker]

Nursery manager told DH today that apparently DS has only been offered mornings at his school (he is 5 on 27th March 2011), we have heard nothing though. Anyway, she asked if we still wanted his afternoon place at nursery until January (when I guess school take him full time?) We will probably pay anyway as I think he would much prefer that (he loves nursery - it's pre-school really) but just wondered if it's funded because he is at school? I also have his name on the waiting list for the school this nursery is in.

You should contact the primary school. DD has only been offered mornings (may birthday) but at the parents' meeting last night the head said that they will phase the children into full time as soon as parents feel they're ready and they like to have everybody doing full time by half term.

I wish our school was like this, see my post: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/primary/980645-Where-is-the-logic-in-this-I-39-m-astounded.

DS is also a May birthday, god knows how I work childcare around this.

Hello
We had this problem when DD started school this year. She is a May Baby, and so started in September and was offered mornings only - under the Local Authority rules.
DD had to be in childcare in the afternoon (and no, it's not funded) Luckily, DH works part time starting at 1230, so he had to pick up DD, take her to childcare and then race to work!
There's absolutely no thought for working parents is there. . .
The school were very good, there were a few times when DH couldn't do this and they kept her for the afternoon, but the Local Authority are supposed to be family friendly - just not to us parents who have to work eh?
xx

DS also May but all the children starting in September full 8.30-3.30 from second day, unless parents REALLY wants to pick up child early as they are too tired. Apparently they wanted to stagger them in gradually over 3 weeks but parents complained.

Speak to school, sounds ridiculous.

It seems that there are lots of countys where children are phased in during the year, which isn't just diruptive to the families but to the classes aswell. Luckily our county give schools the opportunity to decide when children start full time, we give ours the option of starting full time from week 2 in September and most take it up. It's daft when so many children are in full time day care before they start school. If it's tricky it might be easier to keep them at nursey until they can start full time at school and ask for the place to be held until then, but they will a big chunk of the personal and social part of starting school