laura

We have a vacancy in our 1-2 room for a level 3 practitioner. You should be flexible, hard working and passionate about children's learning, play and development.

Busy Bees is a dynamic and vibrant Outstanding graded nursery. We offer excellent opportunities to those passionate about working with children in a modern and well resourced environment.

Please send a CV and covering letter to preschoolbusybees@googlemail.com

Visit our website www.busybeesbourne.co.uk

wonderful news! x

yes - written permission! we all said at managers briefings that surely if they give us the code we have permission.

When i send out the declaration forms i'll be including a statement with it - ' by completeing this form you have given us permission to check your code.'

Lincolnshire to be fair are quite good. We've changed to an annual declaration form for september although there are A LOT of boxes on it! It's going to confuse the parents!

The 'hub' will also be checked by them regularly so once i've inputted all the data on it they will check it periodically. It will also help with children leaving/starting. It'll flag up who's code is going to expire, pupil premium children, so will hopefully be a useful tool.

Had to chuckle at this email i had from our county today... I've got 47 children who I've got codes for... think I may be on the phone a long time!!! I'll be waiting for the checker!

Do you have a parent with a 30 hours ID code and their written permission to validate this with the local authority?

The Early Years Hub (containing the automated 30 hours checker) will be available in the next couple of weeks. However, if you want us to check the 30 hours code for you now so you can secure the child's place for September, please call the EYE team and provide the following details:

• The Parent NI number
• The 11 digit eligibility code [ DERN - Department for Education Reference Number ]
• The Childs Date of Birth

Try this website I stumbled upon it and it's been a great resource for scenarios

 

http://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/schools/safeguarding_in_education/monthly_staff_scenarios.aspx

was just going to post a link to this one - it's fab isn't it! we send one out monthly, ask staff to work as a room, discuss what they would do and then we share the 'answers'. It highlighted to us that they weren't all knowledgeable about the terms used so we did some training around that. OFSTED were impressed!

We had ducklings and chicks this year. We used our pupil premium money to get them. Children loved them.

The ducklings went to happy homes, 2 to my house to join our other 8! and the other 4 went to live on a pub allotment.

We have a duck nesting in out nursery hedge too, bizarrely about a meter high! she sits happily on her nest and pops out for a waddle when the children come in!

we did ours with pro training. Like mouseketeer it was so much easier doing the blended training with staff only having to give up one Saturday.

Woohoo! finally the report is live and we are absolutely thrilled to say we are OUTSTANDING!!

Congratulations!! Data control licence......what?????? Can someone tell me how?

Could be ICO - data protection registration - we were asked for our certificate

Congratulatiions to you both!

We have previously really struggled. Spent hundreds on adverts in papers etc.

This time we did a boosted advert on facebook. It worked brilliantly and got some excellent candidates. People shared it and it reached a wide audience.

these figures are truly appauling...are you going to be able to keep sustainable at this rate? especially as there will be no increase for the next 3 years??

It's terrible isn't it. We have been on £3.52 since 2005 so this is good! Lincolnshire is receiving the lowest rate the gov can give. We are going to have to be more careful over what we spend on resources which is sad as we currently put a lot back in to the business.

Our current fee is £4.60 an hour, our funding rate from april is £3.82... at the moment i charge £10 a term for snacks - or parents can supply their own. I'm considering upping this to £10 per half term from september. I'm not comfortable with charging for any other items. I asked my parents if they'd be willing to pay a voluntary top up most said yes, but in reality i'm not sure if they will. I'd only do this for children attending over the 15 hours.

I'm probably going to put my hourly rate up by 20p an hour.

I need to start making some decisions!!

I'd challenge the one about other settings near you being inspected so you'll be done soon - they are definitely in our area! we were the 3rd in 3 weeks locally!

thanks everyone, very happy with the result and will let you know when it's official

Well we were expecting it, we were 4 years in january and 2 settings around us had been done in the last couple of weeks.

We've got 2 inspectors as we are a large setting, one of them did our registration visit and our last inpsection so we can't wait to show her how much we have changed, we only had 3 rooms then and now we are 6! The other sounded lovely on the phone.

Staff have been amazing pulling together, coming in when on holiday to check their rooms, typical that 2 of our room leaders were on holiday today but they are stars to come in.

​I still teach one day a week and guess what that's tomorrow but my school have kindly found cover for me.. They've even covered my sewing club!

Just updated my SIP and scribbled all over the SEF to show what we've done since it was last done in November - we are ready!!!!

How lovely, too often we get hung up on the negative....

This was a recent email from a new family that have joined us recently, these are the comments we need to hold on to!

I have add as I know sometimes a bit of recognition is nice... xxx has really settled into busy bees now and I'm really happy with the care she receives in ladybirds, all of the girls (particularly Sally, kelli & Amy.k who are our favourites!) Already feel like family

we use nursery genie for everything but i think they do smaller packages to include just invoicing. Our invoices are emailed out.

http://www.nurserygenie.co.uk/

This is what i sent :

Name:

From September 2017 the Government will be funding 30 hours a week free childcare to children aged three and four years old during school term time.

To be eligible for the 30 hours all parents in the household must be working the equivalent of 16 hours a week either at or above the national living wage or the national minimum wage up to a maximum of £100k a year per parent. For lone parents if that one parent works more than 16 hours and earns less than £100,000 per year they will be eligible.

XXX will be offering the free 30 hours from September 2017 but we are forward planning to gauge how many children would be eligible and what the uptake might be.

As yet we are unsure if the funding will be able to be stretched as the 15 hours is now, but we assume it will be. If so it will be about 22 hours a week

Please complete the questionnaire below and return ASAP, thank you

Will you be eligible for 30 hours funding? yes / no

If you are eligible would you take up the funding? yes / no

If you are eligible would you want term time / all year round

To give us an idea of sessions, if you are eligible what hours do you think you would want? (this is not a guarantee that the places will be available, we are just trying to get an idea!)

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

They are already with me, and i'm turning away new children now as I know I won't have room in September. Two thirds of our current children do 6 to 15 hours a week, with the rest doing up to 40ish. I've got 76 children in this age band

Laura ..are these children who are already with you or new starters? confused .com!!!

So far my parents are sending back the forms saying they will be eligible for 30 hours and they will be taking it... Only 1 parent has said they are eligible and won't be taking it, they even emailed me to confirm! They mentioned the costs and said it wasn't fair on us. Seriously panicking about how i'm going to fit all these children in...Think I've decided that I will have to let them know a date that they can send me sessions wanted, on this date I will email them a form and then it will be first come first served and I will accommodate where possible!

nope not received, but my sister has had a letter about it for her son, who comes to our nursery and doesn't pay fees lol as we own the nursery together.

Rather annoying they let parents know before us....

Full day care - apart from the worry of funding not matching fees my main concern is fitting every one in! We are already full which is unheard of at this time of year, with 32 every day, in our pre-school room we can have 40 and I just can't get the logistics of it all, first come first served? age? arghhh!!!!

ooh thank you, that has ticked something off my list of things to do!

Thank goodness for this site and your help. I have been told that parents have to work 30 hours to get the 30 hours funding????

This is what I've sent to parents:

From September 2017 the Government will be funding 30 hours a week free childcare to children aged three and four years old during school term time.

To be eligible for the 30 hours all parents in the household must be working the equivalent of 16 hours a week either at or above the national living wage or the national minimum wage up to a maximum of £100k a year per parent. For lone parents if that one parent works more than 16 hours and earns less than £100,000 per year they will be eligible.

At XXX we will be offering the free 30 hours from September 2017 but we are forward planning to gauge how many children would be eligible and what the uptake might be.

As yet we are unsure if the funding will be able to be stretched as the 15 hours is now, but we assume it will be.