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Risk-taking in the early years
by Caroline Vollans
Caroline Vollans reflects on whether we have a narrow view of risk and risk-taking in the early years.
Podcast: Extending our use of creativity to focus on children's well-being
Jules and Anya chat with Sonia Mainstone-Cotton about how we can extend our concepts of creativity to focus on children's well-being and understanding of themselves. They discuss how the language we use and the environments we develop in these creati…
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nursery Closure Days / Bank Holidays
Hi, When you create a child's schedule, you'll have the option of selecting whether they attend during school holidays or not, please see below: If you charge for training days, bank holidays etc. once you have added these as a school holiday (Config > School Holidays and Closures), then any child with this box ticked and has a booking that falls onto one of these days, will still be charged. If a child is on holiday and therefore absent, if you do not know of this in advance you can mark them as absent on the register. Alternatively, if you know of these holidays in advance, you can add their absence through the child's 'Extras and Absences' tab. Please see below: This will then note the child's absence, but again if they have a booking that falls within this period, they will still be charged. I hope this clarifies things. Best wishes, Vanna -
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nursery Closure Days / Bank Holidays
I am currently transitioning to using Tapestry's Management System. I would like to know how Tapestry treats any closures entered when invoices are generated. Is it deducted or ignored? We charge for all bank holidays and holiday absences, our fees are worked out over 52 weeks of the year. If Tapestry deducts a Bank Holiday or a week where a chid is absent, for example, then presumably we would not enter any bank holidays or child absences? The latter is concerning as we are required to monitor child absences, so entering a legitimate child holiday is as important as a child not attending for some other reason, e.g. temperature / gone to see granny! -
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communication to parents
Good Afternoon, Is there a place where we can update parents what is happening in the setting e.g. dates for your diary and a place to send out news letters -
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Policy approval
We have so many policies and we are currently taking them to our Trustee Board Meetings annually for re-approval. Do you all take every policy to your Trustees/Governors etc for approval and signature or just the statutory ones?
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