ladybirds1991

and us lol

We still take cash payments from our parents, i anti bac my hands beforehand and it gets checked and then put in a money bag. As far as i'm concerned handling the cash is no different to 'handling' their children (used in the broadest sense)! or their lunchboxes or their rucksacks or changing their clothes or nappies. I don't see the difference really.

Some of our children have colds, i.e runny noses and we have told the parents that as long as they feel well enough in themselves they can still bring them in, otherwise this time of year pretty much all the kids would be off every other week.

Good afternoon We have 2 members of staff about to embark on their Level 2 and Level 3 courses respectively, we as a setting have agreed to fund half of each staff members cost of the course with the staff member paying the other half, have been told i need to put in place an agreement/contract between the pre-school and staff members that in effect say that if they leave the course then they are liable to return all monies we have paid out and that they need to stay on for a period of time if they pass the course, we have already spoken to our staff about this and they are happy for it to be put in writing, but at the moment am having a bit of a writers block about how to word it all and what exactly to put in it! Have any other settings ever had agreements like this before? I know they are commonplace in other work places, if so would anyone be able to share an agreement they have done or signpost me to a template i can look at please. Thanks

No we haven't yet, what we have been doing is getting a disinfectant carpet spray from our suppliers and spraying that on our mats and then hoovering off, seems to work just as well to be honest lol.

We will still have out pencils, crayons, wooden blocks etc.. which we will clean daily as we have been doing through this whole shebang and then when children go outside and hall is empty we will go round again and spray everything down, we are also planning to have set times during the day where we will have 'anti bac time' where wherever children and staff are they will all anti bac their hands this will be in addition to washing their hands before going outside, coming back in, lunchtimes, snack times etc...

We will are lucky enough to be able to have two different areas where our children can enter and leave by so we will be having our returners come in via one door without their parents and our newbies coming in via another with their parent, restricted to one parent, which we will allow for the first week ish then hopefully ween parent off, as 9 times out of 10 it is the parent who tends to have the issue with 'letting go' lol and at that point their child will come in without them, though they won't be allowed any further in than the main hall and won't be allowed to interact or mingle with anyone else while there, so fingers crossed it all works!

I have already emailed my newbie parents for September and got sessions and days sorted out for them all ready for when we return and I think we will be up and running by then as the country cannot sustain economically at least, people staying off work for much longer and their kids will need to be in school for them to go to work. The reason for the 'lockdown' was to slow the spread of the virus so the NHS did not get overwhelmed, which seems to have worked, I believe this virus will be around for years and, like the flu and other diseases is something we are going to have to live with, which means kids going back to school.