Private School Nursery vs Private Nursery

[JennyRedHat]

Is it better to start your child in a private school nursery and juggled the holidays from the start or put them in a private nursery and deal with it at a later date? Thank you.

Private school nursery all the way. Our local private nursery just kept the kids safe and lots of free play with no structure. High turnover of staff, young inexperienced staff with basic childcare qualifications. Private school nursery had pgce qualified teachers, amazing timetable of activities including yoga, ballet, French, forest school and much more. My child could read fluently by the time they started reception.

Quality is totally different.

It depends on your situation.

I never had to worry about holidays as I’m not tied to a 9-5, starting a school they will continue at is also great, what about the location? Close to work or home? Some places won’t accept 30 hours.

It all depends on your situation.

This is far too general. Someone I know pulled her DC out of one such nursery after an incident that they denied. When this happened, her DP finally owned up that said child cried the whole way there every time he took them there. That was the final straw (and she was annoyed he never told her as it’s a good 20 min drive and DC went 3 days a week. Moved to a private nursery and DC loved it from day 1. Never looked back. There was never an intention for them to go to the school but she had been led to believe it was better.

The best place for a child is one that suits them and where they enjoy being.

It depends on the setting, surely? DS went to a private nursery where he learnt French and Mandarin, had a four course lunch every day and had a timetable of enrichment activities. He was also there 8.30 - 5.30, four days a week, 48 weeks a year. The private school nursery near us didn’t offer anything like that and we’d have had to deal with school holidays and shorter days.