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Froglet, I hope you have a better day today. It’s tough isn’t it when it’s one behaviour disrupting everything, it can really get you down. But at the end of the day you are only human. We currently have one child who is making life really quite challenging for all the children and staff. The trouble is the other children have worked out just how to wind him up and then when he retaliates the whole group is hyped up. The last couple of weeks have just felt like crowd management and I just feel that each age group is not getting the best of their time with us at the moment. So I have split the group, I have the school leavers with me to do a structured activity and a story and the younger children are in their own group next door. We then join together to be outside. This has worked so well that from today I am actually extending the time we are apart. I finally feel that the older ones are getting the best from me. Some of them are so ready to move on to the challenge of school and had got Bolshi, but this seems to have put a stop to it.
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Glad you have received your second dose Sunnyday. No time for these anti Covid, anti vaccine people, it’s fine if they don’t want it, but why don’t they just buggar off and leave people to get theirs done. Have started catching up and waking my mind up to Ofsted stuff! And also been having a look at the new DMs document. Have a good weekend, think we have some pretty strong weather coming in tomorrow so need to batten down the hatches! I despair of ever getting my vegetable garden planted this year!
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That’s brilliant, bet he loves it.
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I’ve just purchased DM. Think we need to stay with something familiar but am going to have a bit of a shake up with curriculum and assessment templates in the summer holidays.
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I desperately need some training for a staff member on COEL. I have noticed that when an observation is done she is just ticking random boxes and a lot of them are not relevant which makes me think she needs a deeper understanding of them. Can anyone recommend any training that I can suggest to her.
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I actually cannot believe they are not waiting until September. I think they could have just given everyone until September to get fully back into the swing of things and a bit of time to digest the last year. I know inspections have to restart sometime but I think we have all dealt with enough this last year. I mean not even parents are coming into our setting yet!
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I do so hope that you are right. It’s just frightened me how lapse with it I have become. Not lapse with anything that affects the children you understand but the rest. Covid brain seems to have taken over and if I am like this, vid knows what the rest of the staff team will be like.
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Phew. Thank you. I seemed to have gone into panic mode😬
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We have a new member of staff since last inspection, refresh my memory do I need to notify Ofsted. She is not a nominated person and has been through the DBS etc. I am struggling with the gov website which replaces the Ofsted online. I know that all my committee details are up to date.
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I pretty sure we do as we were last done in 2014. I wish with every bone in my body that they will delay until September though.
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I wish I was feeling upbeat! Before Covid, I felt as ready as I could be for Ofsted but I now just feel out of touch with it all! Have been so preoccupied with settling children and trying to stay sane that I am now in a bit of a panic! We haven’t been inspected since 2014 so it surely has to be one of the first inspections. So worried that I have not crossed an i and dotted a t somewhere and going to get caught out on something ridiculous. I think I am going to spend Tuesday going through everything and refreshing myself. I think the last year has lulled me into a false sense of security. But I do know that I have happy children, happy parents and we are doing the best we can! Any prompts of things I need to check, refresh myself with would be most welcomed. Have a lovely weekend xx
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Gosh I’m so glad that there are other people who think like this. It really is my baby and I need to remember that it was formed without me and will one day continue to run without me. I really am so possessive of it but also when I let myself, very proud of how far it has developed and come on since I took over 18 years ago.
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And when you put that balaclava on! Scary 😦
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Also got my first vaccine tomorrow, which is brilliant, just hope Sunday will not be wasted feeling rough! Have a lovely weekend all.
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Dad and I celebrated our birthday today! It’s a birthday we never thought we would share again, so was extra special. Had the most amazing cake made for us by the clever lady who works with me, the attention to detail was fabulous. It also tasted delicious! My two lovely sons also bought me a swing seat and covered it in solar fairy lights, which was such a surprise.
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Ohh not a lover of the new change I have to admit! But like some others I don’t do change easily!
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I’m back! I have missed you. My LA sadly didn’t renew and I was suddenly locked out😢 Thank you to Sue for getting me sorted and enabling me to use my username under my Tapestry account.
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Best ride ons / first trikes for toddlers
zigzag replied to Greenfinch's topic in Early Years Setting Management
Balance bikes are a must. Even the youngest children are amazing on them. It then makes riding a bike come naturally to them. -
I think my children and quite possibly the parents would lynch me if we didn’t offer cooking. They just love it at the moment. Oh my good get a skip, it’s seriously worth the money!
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We finished last Friday with the children after a lovely Easter egg hunt and the obligatory making of the cornflake Easter nests! We return on the 14th April with children (first aid the two days before) So far this week I have totally cleaned out the two sheds, the storage room or otherwise known as the dumping room and the staff cloakroom area. Myself and my staff then filled a massive skip to the brim and oh my goodness it felt good! Now catching up on paperwork! Four new children starting after Easter so going to be a busy summer term.
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We received ours today. I’m doing the same and offering to childminders. It’s just crazy 😜
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Funded weeks per term - Surrey
zigzag replied to emmamayo's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
And it confuses me every blooming year!🤯 -
This made me laugh, you are so right. No pleasing some people!🤣
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Yes wearing just in communal areas and I guess if when you are talking to parents and cannot socially distance. I have noticed a few times now when I have needed to talk to a parent or get them to sign the accident book etc that sometimes it’s not possible to keep to social distancing and think we may start wearing masks at handover time. I have also noticed a bit of an air of complacency amongst the parents and think perhaps people are starting to forget the need to still comply to distancing etc.
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It’s a flaming joke! Where where they at the height of the pandemic? 😡. Also I am so disgusted and enraged on behalf of our childminder colleagues that they do not have access to tests or masks!
