when do children start nursery?

vippymini

Everywhere so diffrent up by me mine have gone to a play group at 2 years 9mths which you have to pay for unless you are one benifits or tax credits this then becomes free after the age of 3 and then the term before they are 4 they go into nursery.

astonsmummy

I put astons name down for a school nursery when he was one so i could guaruntee a place, as far as sending him to the same school, we just have to apply the year before he's due to start (next year) and see what happens, it's not the closest school to me but it's beter than the 2 in my neighborhood, and they do take kds from my neighbourhood so i'll just have to keep my fingers crossed.

alwaysskint96

I think its a bit of a cheek towards working parents if the schools insist on having a child at the school nursery to get a place in the infant school. Makes me glad that there isnt a nursery attached to my preffered primary for my 3 year old son. School nurseries only run for about 2.5 hours- thats not much use to parents at work, what are we supposed to do- leave work to take them from school nursery back to day ursery- or pull them out of a day nursery they may have attended for years and have to find a childminder who works around the school nursery- doing pickups etc?

vippymini

Something i lernt is a child can stay at a playgroup or a inderpendent nursery till the term before they are 5 and then go up into mainstream school at the reception year:D

dlb

My dd started in Jan after she turned 3 in the dec.
We have a jan and easter intake.
We do not have to go this nursery to get a place at the school it is attached to infact, you now get a form to fill in to request your 3 preferance schools after nursery.
I just put my kids name down at the school as early as possible, dd name was on at 1.

Sultana

I can't remember where I saw this but I'm fairly sure that any school insisting that a child must attend the attached nursery before they can be offered a place in Reception is breaking the admissions Code of Practice.

It's more usual for schools to say that admission to Nursery does not guarantee a place in Reception.

astonsmummy

Sultana wrote:

I can't remember where I saw this but I'm fairly sure that any school insisting that a child must attend the attached nursery before they can be offered a place in Reception is breaking the admissions Code of Practice.

It's more usual for schools to say that admission to Nursery does not guarantee a place in Reception.

Thats what i thought, all the schools i've looked at have said that going to the nursery does not guaruntee a place at the school.

clairec79

It depends alwaysskint. The 'nursery' attached to my kids school is more or less part of the school proper (only difference is their part of the playground is railed off. It's 9 - 3.20 same as the school and is free - not sure if that's council or Welsh Assembly funded (all the schools in the area seem to do the same, but some start them off mornings only for a term).

Spendless

Sultana wrote:

It's more usual for schools to say that admission to Nursery does not guarantee a place in Reception.

That is correct for our area.

I know of one child currently at a day nursery cos her mum works, who will get a place in reception at the infant school next year because she is in catchment and her older sibling is at that school.

Another child currently in the school nursery may not get a place as they live miles out of catchment and there is no older sibling already attending that school.

So here reception places aren't dependant on going to the school nursery.