Managing your nursery children
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The best way to manage nursery children in Insight is to add them into your MIS, and synchronise them along with the rest of your pupils. This ensures a smooth transition when those pupils move from nursery into reception.
If your Nursery children are not on your MIS, you can import them using a spreadsheet or add them manually.
Children Leaving During Nursery
Historically we have found that many schools do not include their nursery children in their MIS. The Wonde MIS sync does not currently archive children who leave the school during nursery, as it would do for pupils in Reception or above.
If a child leaves your school during nursery, you can manually set their Leave Date. This can be done by Admin level users via the Pupils pages, at Profile > Edit Profile. There you can enter a "Left school on" date. Alternatively, go to Account > Admin > Manage Pupils, and find and edit pupils there.
Year Groups and Classes
Insight will assign pupils to the correct year group based on date of birth. For early years, there are: E1, E2, N1 or N2. These often cause confusion since different settings take these to mean different things. The way Insight works is based on the way most MIS' work, in which these labels refer to the number of years spent in nursery. If a pupil is due to start reception in 2026-27, then Insight will work backwards to calculate:
E1 = 2022-23
E2 = 2023-24
N1 = 2024-25
N2 = 2025-26
YR = 2026-27
Nurseries will often move pupils between rooms or groups mid-year, even though their entry to reception date hasn't changed. This can be managed by assigning your pupils to classes in Insight. You can then do all your analysis and data entry based on your classes, but children shouldn't ever need to have their year groups adjusted unless they're deferring reception by a year.
