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Ahh bless you. It went brilliantly, it was a very positive experience and worth the weekend of anxiety! I am delighted with the result. Will share with you when I can. Now just breathing deeply again and unwinding! Eight years was a long time!
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Yes definitely. Oh no, that’s awful, so sorry to hear this. All the best to you and your team in the coming weeks dealing with this.
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I would just like to say, having a whole weekend to be anxious and nervous before inspection is VERY unpleasant! There is a lot to be said for the no warning inspections. It would have saved the full blown panic attack at 4am this morning! Not helped by a message later to say a staff member has tested positive! 😱😱
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Friday again and a good week back for us. Three families with Covid but all agreed to my request of staying away, thank goodness. Have had an email from Ofsted to say they were trying to make contact (last week when we were closed) to arrange inspection. FINALLY! Last inspected in 2014 so you can imagine what the last few years have been like, living on tenterhooks. Hoping they will phone today and we can just get on and get it over with. I’ve got a stinking cold and am meant to be going to watch Sarah Millican on Sunday, so hope to feel better by then. Happy Friday all.
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Manager £11.75 Deputy £9.71 level 2 Assistant £8.91 level 4 Assistant £9.20 I am aware that as manager I am on a good rate of pay but I have been there for 19 years and do EVERYTHING.
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Yes! It wasn’t so bad with Dad, only had to call 111 once. Just hard not being in your own home and having to work to a care routine that is like Groundhog Day. I knew it was hard, but until you live in someone else’s shoes you just never know the true extent of it.
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Well we had a two week half term and this week I have been living with Dad and being his full time career whilst my Mum got a well needed break to see the family in Kent. She is home tomorrow so I will be “free” and there will be no TDL on Sunday! Sunnyday very glad to hear that your stitch and bitch Sorry I mean knit and natter went well. Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
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It’s starting to clam down here now. Thankfully we have got away with no damage! I did fear for my greenhouse at one point this morning! Thankfully we are on the south coast of Cornwall and not the North! Also grateful that my son has been spared (so far) any Coastguard call outs. Fingers crossed we get to Kent tomorrow!
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Well we were actually due to drive to Kent today! Have made the decision to postpone until tomorrow. It’s really starting to build here now and now that the southeast also have a red warning in place it just wasn’t worth the risk. Stay safe everyone.
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Oh gosh Sunnyday. I hope she is ok. Xx
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Oh Sunnyday will be keeping everything crossed that you and Mr S remain negative. As for your comment about being too careful I really think you have been responsible and I wish more people still were being. It very much feels that everyone is acting like it’s all gone away. We have had so many poorly children in pre-school this week. Coughing and spluttering everywhere, I now have a stinking cold and a staff member off poorly.
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I agree with Louby loo. Instead of getting frustrated or angry I now just laugh at it all! If I didn’t I think I may sit and cry and rock in a corner somewhere!
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Ahh Louby Loo, I feel your pain and everything you just said is exactly how we feel. Today we had a child who coughed non stop from the start of session until the end. Unfortunately she is having a bit of a wobble at the moment and is very clingy to me so I have literally been coughed at face to face most of the morning, despite me telling her to cough into her hand or arm. Mid way through the morning I had to take a couple of minutes away as I was getting quite stressed by it. Like you said it’s not me I am worried about it’s my elderly parents. A couple of things are really getting on top of me at the moment and I came home feeling awful. But I took the dog for a nice walk and decided to let it go for the weekend and deal with it on Monday. It’s just so damn hard to switch off when it is little people that we care about so much. It’s really exhausting.
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It’s the constant emails that are doing my head in at the moment! Daily one form DFE, then from LA, then staffing census, headcount, EYA updates it just seems endless!
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Well I didn’t want to risk anyone getting the wrong idea about me!😬😛
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Lots of colds doing the rounds for our children again! A family with a positive case (again) have insisted on the sister attending so I am making them test each day. I am still shocked that although Mum is at home each day she is still insisting the child attends. Legally I know she can but morally it is wrong. A good and happy week for us. Managed to make progress with SALT referral today for a little one and it was good to be able to talk and bounce some ideas around with someone knowledgeable. Still a long way to go, but at lest we are in the system. I fear there are more obstacles to be tackled so also got a paediatrician referral and inclusion referral going in. The Ofsted document was shocking! I only speed read it, but my goodness! It really requires improvement! Off to collect our new car tomorrow, will be the only time that it is immaculate, as soon as we drive it off the forecourt it will forever have sand in it. Cleaning out the old car, the amount of poo bags (unused)🤣 and masks was just ridiculous! Happy and healthy weekend all xx
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Wow, Sunnyday it sounds like your sister has been lucky! I hope she continues to make a good recovery.Glad you got a family get together at last, and your DIL sounds like a very sensible lady! Good start back, everyone so happy to literally run in on Tuesday. Five off poorly today though! Colds, coughs and sick bug! So another term starting with illness! Hope it does not develop into anything more!
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Once I started working at pre-school I didn’t pay for my sons. I was not their kp and I also expected other staff to discipline them rather than me when needed!
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Cait that guidance seems really sensible. Which LA is this? Sunnyday good to hear about your sister, let’s hope they get to the bottom of it.
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The guidance is complete madness. We are sticking to our guns and telling our families that if the child has been in close contact then we would prefer them to be kept away from school until the positive case tests negative in the household. If they do t agree to this then they can only come in if they are tested daily. The government guidance for under fives makes no sense to me whatsoever! Sunnyday let us know how your sister gets on today. Keeping everything crossed for her.
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Great news Sunnyday, best wishes for her for Tuesday. Xx
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I wish you all, above everything else a healthy 2022. I also hope there will be lots of happiness as well. The last two years have taught me to value the good times and to always find laughter even in the darkest of times. I’ve also realised that life will always throw crap at you and it’s how you deal with it and keep moving forward that matters. Thank you all for another year of support and giggles. Happy new year forum friends xx
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All well here, my Dad had a reasonably good day on Christmas Day so we were able to get him down to my house for dinner in between carer visits. First time he has been here since he became ill which is eighteen months. So to have him sat at my table was the best Christmas present imaginable. The rest of the holiday has been incredibly lazy! We are currently binge watching the Handmaids tale and are totally addicted. What an imagination (all be it totally messed up) the writer of it has. I hope all of your family members who have Covid are soon on the mend.
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Happy Christmas and a very, very healthy and peaceful new year. Xx
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So pleased for you Froglet. Hope that you have lots of family to spoil you rotten and look after you on Christmas Day. Enjoy.
