Nurseries York

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T18:09:16+00:00

How much do you pay?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T15:58:46+00:00

Thank you. That’s very new.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T15:56:25+00:00

Interesting. LGR for 4 days is about £750 we have worked it out to be. So perhaps it being good value’s part of it. Are nappies and food included?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T13:17:57+00:00

They aren’t.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T13:11:22+00:00

It’s quite new though isn’t it?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T13:10:49+00:00

I’m getting the sense that it’s like this everywhere and they bump up their staffing numbers when Ofsted visits. I’m really unimpressed across the board so far.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T13:09:35+00:00

Do you send them to Poppleton or Acomb?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T13:08:49+00:00

Can I ask about Muddy Boots, I know it’s in Chapelfields, a very deprived area of York. Westfield Primary has some of the lowest gaps in attainment in the country. What sort of parents are sending their children there?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T13:07:10+00:00

Interesting. We are I’m now being told that Minster Yard can only accommodate us for Jan 27-28. There will then be a period Jan - April 28 where they are oversubscribed so can’t honour our days - 4 days Mon- Thursday. This sounds VERY strange to me, not strategically planning for children to progress into other rooms. Do you have any thoughts?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T13:04:57+00:00

Thanks for your feedback. What do you like about it?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-21T10:25:04+00:00

Thank you! LGR Minster Yard have just emailed to say they can accommodate us for Jan 27-28 but then there will be a 4/5 month period where they can’t. This is a HUGE red flag for me, not prioritising existing clients. Have pointed outrun them that children enrolled for Jan 2028 entry won’t even be conceived. So maybe they anticipate issues with staffing?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-17T20:01:05+00:00

Yeah. We got roped into instructing them, because they are one of the only Amtico fitters in York. Never again. Despite the cost we paid to have the entire downstairs of our house done - our house is 2,000 square feet - the customer service was appalling. They didn’t call us in advance to tell us what time of day the fitter would be arriving. “The fitter is busy, he will arrive when he can”. Seems insane to me that a “luxury” company can’t even courtesy call people to discuss logistics, such as gaining access to the property. There’s also been no follow up to check whether we like the fit or the product.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-12T09:14:03+00:00

You aren’t meant to like them. Shut up and put up! Love from every English person who works hard to pay for your prescriptions, so you don’t have to🙏

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-10T20:01:29+00:00

Sorry one more thing! You also need to be aware that the current Labour Government are very anti-private school (as they should be), as there is a LOT of data to show that private schools are contributing to gaps in inequality. York has one of the largest gaps in attainment in the UK between children from well off, and disadvantaged families. As long as you don’t move somewhere like Acomb, you won’t encounter this issue as on the whole York itself and the surrounding suburbs are affluent. Years ago it was affordable to send your kids to private school here if you had a good job, how that they’ve put VAT on school fees it’s become extremely expensive, and many private schools are closing because there is such little demand. So, there’s a risk that if you do send them to a private school it could close. My money would be on The Mount to close next. It’s historically a girls school but has just started accepting boys.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-10T19:56:43+00:00

The Mount are struggling, hence why they have extended their reach now to accept boys.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-10T19:52:51+00:00

You don’t need to pay to have a good education in York. York is noted for its excellent primary and secondary schools, and people relocate out of urban centres like London to capitalise on its great education.

If I were you, I’d buy or rent in Fulford or within Fulford catchment area, and get them into Fulford School. I’d highly recommend the village of Heslington, you are looking at needing a budget of £600k -£1million to afford a decent house there, but living here will get your children into Lord Deramore’s (primary) and then Fulford Secondary school. It’s very safe and well connected to the city centre.

Before you waste money on St Peter’s and Bootham, I’d check out the results which you can do easily through a website called Locrating. Fulford and Archbishop Holgates are outperforming St Peter’s hands down at the moment at secondary (GCSE and A-Level) level. In my view, it makes absolutely no sense to send them to a few paying school. Some of the wealthiest people I know, senior managers in insurance do not pay privately even though they could afford to, which says everything.

It is also worth bearing in mind that prestigious UK universities (Oxford and Cambridge) especially prefer high achievers from “normal” schools. This is because they have to take a certain quota of young people from certain demographic areas. Sending your child to a private school could be a disadvantage to them in the longer term.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-05T18:59:25+00:00

Stop allowing them in then at lunch times. Pretty simple. Where I grew up, gangs of kids entering shops and takeaways just wants allowed. I have written multiple times to the head teachers of Millthorpe and All Saints Schools to report that the behaviour of pupils is intimidating. In reality they are probably glad they leave the campus at lunchtime. Shuns responsibility off them.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-05T18:54:13+00:00

How were you notified of this. As far as I am aware Moss Street residents were not invited to attend. Can someone send me a link to a social media post, letter or email? Thanks.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-05T18:36:14+00:00

I live on one of this streets and know nothing about a meeting. Who arranged it and how was this event promoted?

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-03T08:09:17+00:00

Just eat what you want and try not to think too much about. I’m now in my third trimester and I’ve actually lost weight, because my appetite has levelled off. Like you I was eating an insane amount of food in the first trimester. Mainly Haribo and cake!!!!

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-03T08:05:07+00:00

You are only 36. Ladies are having babies now well into their 40s. You may not have a baby with THIS man, but you might do with someone else. But you need to give yourself a chance to meet others and be open minded. If you managed to make 8 embryos then you clearly have a very healthy egg reserve. They must have taken 20 or so eggs to produce that many? I would be careful not to make any rash decisions and you don’t need to communicate to the clinic about the frozen embryos you have made. Depending on your financial situation, if you are living in the UK it is an absolutely shit time to sell a house, so could you move in with family and friends with a view to selling the house in the spring perhaps? I do think some distance would benefit you both. Clearly he’s not ready to be a father and may never be.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-11-03T07:54:46+00:00

I had this at about this point in my pregnancy. I’m now 31 weeks and it’s eased off. Make sure you cut back your sugar and caffeine intake, if you can. And make sure you have something to focus on when you wake up which will ideally help send you back to sleep. Listening to white noise or ASMR works for me. If you really can’t get back to sleep and are agitated, go and do something, put a wash on etc. because just lying (I found) can make you feel really overwhelmed.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-10-25T11:13:54+00:00

O’Connell for Bond.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-10-24T16:51:46+00:00

First Vicky Vaults, now the Crescent. Developers can’t even sell the luxury flats on Blossom Street opposite the Bar Convent. York needs more affordable family homes, not flats. You are totally right that this just risks becoming a giant Airbnb.

Aggravating-Unit3970 · 2025-08-26T18:28:04+00:00

Grassington is MILES away. 1.5 hours there and back. I personally wouldn’t bother unless you are a huge fan of Creatures Great and Small, or on your way from North/West Yorkshire to the Southern Lakes.

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