Mouseketeer
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Thanks Panda..so there isn’t an app? I keep seeing people post grids of squares (no letters) on Fb when they’ve done the days grid, I did the one today on nytimes.com (or think I did 🤔) but then thought it wasn’t the right thing as I couldn’t see how they were sharing from there?
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No but want to…how do you get it?
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It intrigues me that by sticking a pin in a bit of fluff you can make it look like something 🤷♀️ we all had leaves yesterday and some people had blue rockets but the leaves have vanished today 🧐
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Last crochet project and now back to knitting baby cardi’s 🧶 that is a fab blanket, I would have the patience for that. I started making a patchwork bed cover at high school but after 3 years it just about fit Sunday bed …that wasn’t for me, I’d really like to try felting sometime.
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Changes to EYFS pre school and Reception please
Mouseketeer replied to waveawand's topic in Staff Lounge
In theory it is Cait, we are much more about monitoring who is on track and with the right provision/resources/enhancements they’ll continue to progress naturally and putting more focus on how we can support the chn who aren’t progressing as we’d expect, we are more about what will the adults next step be than having hundreds for all the chn but it’s quite worrying this week to see how many managers are saying their Ofsted inspectors are giving recommendations because they don’t have written next steps, when all the webinars Jules mentions above are enforcing moving away from all that paperwork 🥺 -
There is that Louby! I write my newsletters with my heart first and then go back and rewrite using my head (will probably get me hung one day) ….this weeks ‘heart’ was “for f*** s*** after nearly 2 years which part of if we send them home with symptoms they need a PCR test don’t you get?” 🤭 it’s all so exhausting, they should know the drill by now 🙄
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🤣 wonder if it was the same person I had, offered 2 days, came back with ‘that’s great, they’ll come alternate Tuesdays & Thursdays and arrive at 10am’ ….I don’t think so 🧐
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We charge 30p an hour for funded 3 & 4 yr olds, we list it as snacks, seasonal activity resources, supplying waterproofs (we replace them for a pastime), visits/visitors (admittedly not much of that has happened for a while, the vast amount of hygiene products we go through (if they saw how many paper towels a child pulls out at a time they’d get it)., a few question it when they first get the invoice because they haven’t read what they’ve been given before booking a place but once explained they all pay. we submitted a funding claim of 4600 hours last term for our 3 & 4 yr olds, our funding rate is 68p less than our hourly rate giving a deficit of over 3K, why should we be expected to take hits like that term after term 🤷♀️
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This is the problem, no knowing what you’re going to be doing tomorrow or the day after and dropping it to days 5 & 6 has just added another ‘uncertain’ day to the equation 🙄 In theory I’m supernumerary (that isn’t the reality very often, even pre-Covid), so many children need a higher level of support that I feel bad just thinking ‘you’re in ratio get on with it’, I really don’t get how setting’s run to ratio …I take my hat off to them, but I’m sure no one gives a thought to the fact that a managers work doesn’t just disappear when covering ratio’s, especially if you’re the one doing all the admin as well as the childcare manager role 😞
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Haha yeah…’can I just run through this list of questions with you incase I need to report you to Ofsted’ 🙈
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This waiting for 2 neg tests 24 hours apart is making life more difficult than knowing someone was off for 10 days or a family is isolating for 10 days, now you don’t have a clue when staff will make it back or families should be out of isolation 🤷♀️
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That was it sunnyday ….very intrusive with what they thought we be telling them, now trying to back track and say it was for Cm’s who are the registered person but it clearly said ‘anyone working with children’ and anyone associated to settings ‘such as committee’ members amongst others 🤦♀️ They must have all taken medical degrees whilst ‘working from home’ 😖
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A Covid man down this week so a week in ratio and not much of my work done, thankfully I’d done a fair bit the last week of the hols in case it happened so not too stressed, 🤞 for a full team next week….I’m sure everyone else just think your job magically does it’s self when you have to cover 🧐 Thankfully all the chn seem well this week and some confident new starters, one is already a concern 😔 Who read the vanishing Ofsted notification document? 😖 Have a restful weekend all.
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It really is sunnyday, we had a family who were positive at the start of Sept as we started back, I stuck to my ‘need proof of a neg PCR before the child comes’, the parent was sending me screen shots of Gov guidance asking where it says that, I sent them the agreement they’d signed with it stating our position on it and 2 days later they had to tell me the child was positive, they could have been in for a couple of days before the result was back….it just doesn’t make any sense, I realise the test is just a snapshot in time but feel it buys us a couple of days that the child might show symptoms anyway 🤞
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The advice from the DfE email (yesterday) is under 5’s are advised to have a PCR test if a household member is positive but don’t have to isolate whilst waiting for the result ….which is just ridiculous and I will continue to ask for proof of a negative result before they come in. Good Luck to you all with whatever the next term brings, I think it’s going to be a trying one 🙁
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Wishing all my forum friends and team FSF a happy and healthy 2022 with lots to look forward too and Thanks for being here throughout 2021 😊
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Wishing you all a happy and relaxing Christmas however you are spending it and hopefully 2022 will be kind to us all 🎄
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How can it be ok now to test within 7 days of testing positive but before today it was ‘don’t test for 90 days’ 🤷♀️
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I bet the ‘win at all costs’ parent took over the homework project 🤣
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Sad for you Froglet, really hope the symptoms stay quite mild and pass quickly 😔
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Wishing you all a good run up week to end of term, personally cannot wait, so fed up with the excuses about why it’s ok their child has come in coughing, and now whooping cough has reared it’s head 😖 first ‘Xmas do’ last night and reinforced why I bloody hate don’t like secret Sana ….bah humbug!
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Sounds fantastic fm, buses are rare in our area and if you can get one there you can’t get back again for hours and hours, we then have to sort parents collecting from wherever we get to and make sure they can then do the sibling school run …it turns into a big headache and how you managed 50 minutes with no one wanting the toilet is a miracle, we aren’t great at getting out and about at the best of times and have used Covid as an excuse not to so hat’s off to you 👍 staff (well one in particular) will find every reason it can’t be done)
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My thoughts too zigzag…..…great cultural capital FM, ours need the opposite, they need to stay home on the weekends, learn to fill their own time and just play rather than expecting to be entertained every waking moment.
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A bit late, but as sunnyday and panders, do what you need to zigzag, we have stood our ground and said if in the house we want a neg PCR test, I know it’s only a snapshot result at that time but it has bought time for the child to show own symptoms or parents have opted for isolation period (their choice so no funding implications). I am utterly fed up with how many children are coming in coughing and getting the ‘but it’s because they have a bit of a cold’, you’d think this far in they’d know our rules and they are not getting that whilst it might not be a Covid cough if staff get it we’re all off testing and the setting closed so just test the child and instead of them loosing one day they could lose more because we can’t open ….the selfishness of some is beyond belief (especially the non-workers) 😞
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We have low numbers too but sooooo many 2 yr olds that practically need 1:1, added to that most are still in nappies (or pull ups -even worse) and also a few of next years school cohort showing no signs of toileting (or much else) independence it really doesn’t feel like we’re over staffed, so dreading what January will be like. Every year we loose one school group I am always amazed at how quickly the next cohort step up but this next year group really haven’t and I don’t see it happening any time soon and so many behaviour issues to manage on a daily basis, stubbornness, defiance, it’s clear who calls the tune at home 💤
