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I can remember having a conversation with a new member of staff at around this time of year. “How am I going to cope?” She cried, “saying goodby to all these children in summertime. I don’t know how you do it, year after year, I think it’s going to break my heart!” Me ‘Oh, come July, you’ll be pleased to say goodbye to most of them, believe me!’ July comes round, and she admits I was right! The attitude of the parents really rubs off on the children. They just seem to view that last term as marking time until the real stuff begins! So belittling to everything we’ve done. 😡
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My arm was rubbish sore for a week! It’s only just last night that I could lie on that side - so think about what side you lie on peeps!
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Oh! Happy, happy birthday! I hope there’s cake! 🥂
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Celebrating Difference and Challenging Gender Stereotypes in the EYFS
Cait replied to Cait's topic in Diversity and Inclusion
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Has anyone come across this document? It looks a really interesting read. (forgive me if I’m late to the party and you all already know 🤭) https://www.stonewall.org.uk/system/files/getting_started_early_years.pdf
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Ugh. It was to be expected I suppose - plus high winds always seem to affect them. I hope today is less challenging.
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Fantastic. Phew! I hope you enjoy the next term and a half properly xx
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My friends neighbour is a secondary school teacher and less than an hour into the day the whole class was sent home as two children tested positive first thing
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Got mine re-booked for Saturday morning at the surgery. Hoping it goes ahead this time and nothing gets in the way!
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Oh goodness how quickly things are unlearned!
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That’s reminded me that we had a little boy who downright refused to eat his lunch. We requested that he still sat at the table and I would sit close by. We’d all just chat and then once when I was eating a satsuma, I asked one of the children (who I knew would say ‘yes’) if they wanted a bit, and when she took it I just casually asked him if he wanted a bit as well, which he did. He had a couple of pieces, then I noticed that he had a satsuma as well, so I asked him if I could ‘pinch’ a few bits of his. He said I could, and I peeled it and broke it into segments, which I put between us, and he ate the lot. So after that, one of us would share our sandwich and then ‘share’ his. (With Mum’s permission of course). This was just after he had a new brother, and probably just a kick-back. Mum was at the end of her tether as he wasn’t eating at home. He didn’t stay for lunch with us normally until she said she was having problems. I hoped that sitting with his friends would help, but it didn’t, for a few days, until the satsuma. Once we ‘d got him eating at preschool, Mum made it so she would put the baby down for a sleep and out of the way before sitting down with M at home to eat. Then of course, when she was more relaxed with him, he was fine.
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I agree with that. I also had table labels for folk, as I found an anxious parent doesn’t always remember someone’s name or role. Also helped the minute-taker too
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Well that’s really brilliant news!
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Ooh. Are you going back in too, or are the girls going to run it?
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Oh crumbs! I hope the fallout is minimal. Thinking about you. X
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That’s really interesting about the independence.
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It really is! Juggling and differentiating is going to take on an additional level! I really feel for the teachers trying to sort out where everyone is in their learning.
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Aww fabulous! my son and daughter in law are both PhD graduates and have taken home schooling very seriously. My granddaughter is in P1 (reception) and has been working with them at a very high level, in my opinion. She’s been programming robots and doing loads of literacy and numeracy. I have sent things for her to do which are more fun- based, that she has really enjoyed. A particular favourite was to hide cards with the alphabet in capital letters around the house and she had to find them and match them to a set of lower case letters. She also enjoyed ‘magic tens’
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Waiting with bated breath to hear what it was!
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My granddaughter in Scotland has returned to school today. She will be glad of the rest, no doubt as my son and her mum have been HOMESCHOOLING. 😂🤭🤣
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A little boy I looked after always referred to g’way-wins. (Penguins )
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Our shopping centre in Scarborough has a voice thingy in the lift that says “lower carp ark”. So I just assumed you’d been there. We always refer to car parks as carp arks now, because of that. And garden centres are always ‘garden thendurs” because of someone on tv. 🤭😂
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Yes. You’ll find some great instructions on the interthingmebob. They look a bit sad for a few days but then have lots of lovely leaves sprouting everywhere.
