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Aaarrggh, flipping nursery.

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orangemoon · 08/07/2008 10:17

I am sick to death of ds's nursery, i arrived there today on the only day he goes to find it was shut for staff training and no-one had bothered to tell me.
So i ended up with ds having a meltdown in the car on the way home, he has just fallen asleep from exhaustion.

If it wasn't for the fact that it is the end of term soon and ds is going to a good nursery in september then i would pull him out right now.
Dd started going there when she was 2 and they were excellent, making provisions for her disability and making sure all the staff knew about her and her disability, then when she moved up into the pre-school part of the nursery it all started going downhill, and its exactly the same now my ds is there.

They never tell me anything like how ds is getting on, if they will be shut on certain days, when ds moved up into the pre-school room they never invited me to the parents session so i knew what to do when we came in, in the morning like we have to fill out a diary for the children saying what they would like to do today, the have a picture board with pictures of all the children in the class on it and the kids have to put their names under their pics every morning but ds is not on there.

The staff seem to change every week, i have no idea who ds's key worker is and when i take ds into class no-one aknowledges we're there. I keep asking them questions and no-one seems to be able to give me an answere.
Also they have only given him 4 hours a week when he is entitled to the full nursery grant sessions, apparently they took on too many children to give them all the hours they are entitled to.

I am off to write a strongly worded email to the head now.

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cyberseraphim · 08/07/2008 12:28

It sounds a bit like our nursery. DS1 wasn't invited to the christmas party and is never in any of their photo montages. An issue arose a few months back when he stopped talking altogether (he is ASD and minimally verbal and they didn't even bother to tell me until parents night when it was presented as just of those things. I would like to take him out of the nursery and try another one but I don't know how much red tape/work this will involve.

itati · 08/07/2008 12:30

TBH if that was my child's nursery I would remove him immediately and be complaining to OFSTED or the relelvant body. Your child deserves better than this.

Sidge · 08/07/2008 12:33

Oh that sounds awful, to be honest I would pull him out now. Who needs that sort of aggro? And not allowing him his full entitlement of sessions is really poor. Smacks of bad management.

We are so lucky, DD2 is in a fantastic nursery which I can't praise highly enough. I actually wish she could stay there until going to nursery in September! It's a mainstream nursery with spaces allocated for children with SN and it's amazing. The staff are passionate about what they do, DD2 is fully supported and included and the relationship between us, nursery and the staff is wonderful. We are so lucky to have this place a mile down the road.

Sidge · 08/07/2008 12:34

Oops meant instead of going to school in September, not until going to nursery in September!

I agree that complaining to Ofsted would be appropriate.

orangemoon · 08/07/2008 15:34

Well have sent off an email to the manager, wether she replies remains to be seen.
Ds only has 2 more 4 hour sessions left now and needs his routines, at the moment we are trying to get him to understand that in a couple of weeks he will not go to nursery anymore but at least he is excited about starting the nursery at dd's school, he keeps wanting to try his school jumper on all the time, so that can only be good.

Will give the manager a couple of days to respond before i do anything with Ofstead, i have reported the nursery to them once before when i walked in to pick ds up and the was once member of staff in charge of a room of 15 children and no other staff were to be seen.

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itati · 08/07/2008 16:34

That would have been another reason to remove my child tbh.

ouryve · 08/07/2008 22:53

I'm with itati. It sounds very badly run and I wouldn't feel safe leaving either of my DS there.

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