finleysmaid
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Everything posted by finleysmaid
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Idealistically that children don't go to school until they are 6 /7...that all children with send have suitable and adequate support before they are 5 and that all early years staff get paid more than minimum wage. Also if more support was given to parents to allow them to stay at home for longer maybe that would help too ! Sorry you did say fantasy didn't you? -
£4bn boost for childcare in England
finleysmaid replied to Helen's topic in Early Years Setting Management
We already have our funding rate for september (set at 6.66! that caused some hilarity!) can't see us getting another rise before the new term. -
the reason i ask is that it's still on tapestry but i'm pretty sure its been replaced hasn't it???? writing reports and got myself mixed up !
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Stupid question alert....may be going a bit bonkers.....please tell me was technology removed from the new development matters????
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Terrible when families experience issues like this ....look after your team as well as yourself .xxx
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sometimes you just need to share with like minded people who are not going to judge you! or if they do they don't say 😉
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Yes i have at least 3 flat refusers in the gang...those children who asked to do something stare you down and shake their heads!
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oh thank god ! seriously !!! i have a child who's broken a bone in his foot....parent is insisting he comes to the forest with us on friday where we are going to jump of logs and climb trees! was surprised when i said no! others who turn up at the door with food in hand... can you feed him his breakfast ...he won't eat it for me! another....i can't understand why he's not toilet trained? maybe because he's looked after by 6 adults all of who think he's a precious little one and can do no wrong so don't ever tell him what to do! I am all for trying to say yes to the right things but sometimes you do NEED to say NO! IF blooming gentle parenting gets quoted to me once more this term....which if used correctly fine but not as an excuse to let your child get away with whatever they want!
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Ok ranty pants here ! is it just me or do the current cohorts parents feel like they need constant parenting support?
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Just wanted to jump on to this ....nothing to do with the registers but of course you would have the children keyworkers recorded somewhere . If you use tapestry then it might be on there or there may be a list printed somewhere but not sure it needs to be specifically links to a register? not quite what the statutory framework says i feel!?!? was this about ensuring they had a key worker if theirs was not available maybe?
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my favourite new word is gallimaufry...it describes my paperwork....a confused muddle or jumble!
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Oh i do so loath a twee room name too...sorry.! although i do understand the need for identifying the groups. I like the idea of colours or animals, trees, flowers or toys this way they are gender neutral, non age defining not stereotypical etc . I've always been opposed to rooms that identify the age of the children caterpillar/cocoon/butterfly etc...makes me feel very uneasy but can't exactly tell you why! maybe something to do with age rather than stage. When we named ourselves for rainbows years ago we left it in the hands of the children (older of course) ...i think i ended up as something quite strange!
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the week i removed it the fencing contractor said...oh i'd have paid you for that i needed some mature stuff for a garden im doing !😬
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the issue still exists that even with a 1-5 ratio for the two year olds 8x3 year olds bring in more income....why would you take the 2 year olds who require more help and support (as a generalisation!)
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What do we know about Exclusions in the Early Years?
finleysmaid commented on Jules's article in Leadership and Management
I think we have to be careful here to consider the difference between exclusion ...eg refusing a child access to your setting after they have started and 'planning' as in do you have the right support services available to them? If you know that your team/support can only help x quantity of children with additional needs then is going over that number possibly detrimental to all your service users? -
this equates to annoyance in my house....even after taking a pick axe to it i still cant get rid! 😬 planting most seeds however still fills me with joy!
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What a great birthday present Steve. Thank you for all your support (and the team) over the last 2 decades.
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Just popped on to say we were outside today (nice weather here!) only to get bombarded with a swarm of honey bees! Don't have a policy for that one!!!! All fine and safe (no harm to man nor bee) but it did give me a bit of a shock !
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wonder where they nicked it from ? or ask if the won the postcode lottery???? (sorry flippant answer! :)
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surely all these things come under the same umberella ...as in if you are worried about a child do something about it ...and then follow up until you get answers....if we had all the separate issues listed on our staff noticeboards i feel none of us would read any of it!
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£4bn boost for childcare in England
finleysmaid replied to Helen's topic in Early Years Setting Management
Our local maintained nurseries do not offer 30 hour places....it is uneconomic to do so ! -
£4bn boost for childcare in England
finleysmaid replied to Helen's topic in Early Years Setting Management
Not sure i have any intention of taking any more 2 year olds....why would i?? we get children coming to us because we charge reasonable fees for reasonable hours we are always considerably cheaper than a full day care nursery and actually provide 15 hours free and 32.5 hours for a small charge. Even with the increase in funding and the change in ratios the 2 year olds still don't bring in the same income per hour as the 3 year olds....simples!!! -
£4bn boost for childcare in England
finleysmaid replied to Helen's topic in Early Years Setting Management
This is what happened last time of course and you are absolutely right we used to take 54 children over the day and now we take about 35 because they do either 15 or 30 hours, TBH its easier for us as practitioners but we have made it a firm either 5 mornings of 5 afternoon or 5 full days. I absolutely cannot afford to have people doing less. So much for parental choice ! -
We too are having a tricky year group...all the same issues as ourselves....plus several still not toilet trained! I spent the weekend digging out old bricks buried in the garden !!! 😁
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OOh i could do with some of that! foil line it and your on!!!
