Mouseketeer
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Funded weeks per term - Surrey
Mouseketeer replied to emmamayo's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
It’s too late for us to plan by the time we get the forward terms from the funding teams, for the last 2 years we’ve been paid the last week of our open spring term with the summer funding so many of presumed the same this year as the Summer funding is a week longer than we’d usually run too but on no! we’ve now run an extra week in the Spring term that won’t be funded and been told we should have started back a week later after Xmas, finished a week earlier for Easter or asked parents to pay for the last 4 days of Spring term....too late to do any so will have to carry it 😡 and Summer will either run to 23rd July and need to pay staff an extra week or close a week early so staff have worked 38 wks but not claim a weeks funding 🤦♀️ -
I went for the Friday as sooooo many had said they weren’t well, but thankfully no side effects or sore are, 🤞2nd is as easy.
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I’m putting ours on eBay 🤣...joking aside it’s madness, sadly we don’t have any cm’s left to offer them to 🙁 would it be acceptable to bag them up and put out ‘help yourself’ to parents after a few days?
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A bit late but hope you’ve had a good one 🍷 🍰
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I think so from the wording in the Gov publication about the tests. did you get sent the correct blue guidance booklets for staff? We haven’t and I’m not printing them so will have to make do with a link.
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I think it’s more about the timing that whoever has decided to help us, tests we should have been included when schools/attached nurseries started them and masks we needed at the start of the pan(ic)demic when we had to try and source PPE ourselves ....not even to be given it necessarily, but a way to purchase at reasonable cost through our counties would have been something 🤷♀️ I feel my county just hung us out to dry, all safely working at home sending out the odd pat on the back email ....they couldn’t even pick up a phone and ask what help we needed or how things were going 🙁
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Thank you, feeling less overwhelmed now I’ve seen template letters for staff and recording forms to print, was thinking I’d have to generate it all before the 22nd, hope the printing goes ok 🤞
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Do the forms for recording get supplied or links to print? Thanks for the link Louby ...you have to wonder after all this time why the 22nd ...I could have done with the Easter holiday first (as I’m sure many of you could) to get my head around it all ready to share with staff and get paperwork in order 🤦♀️
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We’ve been wearing masks or shields at open/close since Sept so that’s embedded in practice now, we are sending accident reports via email and asking parents to do the same from home but I am going to seem paper funding forms home this time as it takes so long to scan them all in and email. We did receive 2x boxes of gloves along with shields a couple of months ago, I buy 70p for 100 packs from the consortium (like the ones in hair dye boxes) and only use proper disposable gloves for illness, soiled nappies.
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It’s all bloody ridiculous! especially now we can get them for our households and children’s households 😕 not see the mask wearing though ...where was that? 🤯 post 4hr vaccine and so far so good 🤞 are any of you putting a LFT policy together? And guess we need to make parents aware they can order them too. edit - found the mask info, I’m reading it that we still only need to wear in setting in communal spaces rather than in the playroom with chn is that correct? We don’t have corridors or staff rooms, only 1 in the kitchen at a time (it’s tiny) 🤔
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It’s as if they’ve all reverted to 2 year olds and that’s probably doing 2 year olds a disservice, I’ve gone from being supernumerary to full time ratio and my tired is tired .......I could happily call it a day right now 🥺
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I don’t know about anyone else but is it really only Wednesday done? the extra few back this week have really changed the dynamics of the setting ...they are really loud, not listening to anything you ask them to do or not do, independence is zilch, we already have a few loud/challenging children but these later ones back in the mix have caused it to escalate .....yesterday just seemed to be spent on crowd control, I hope this is only short term 🤦♀️
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Sod’s law, I just had a text from Drs to say I could now book it there, so only a day later and not a day trip, I’ve cancelled my previous bookings.
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It’s strange how it’s worked out, people from miles away are booking at our local surgery (less than 10 mins away) but we can’t go there we have to go miles, our 3 sites for Joe public are not even in the same county and I don’t know anyway yet who has been able to book 1st & 2nd at the same venue 🤷♀️
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🤞Louby, I haven’t tried as I saw charities are hitting a brick wall as they don’t have a companies house number ....sounds like the same fiasco as when the childcare voucher scheme started and none of us had a UTR number 🤦♀️
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Have managed to book mine for Thurs after work, a bit of a trek but pleased to have been able to book it, if a little guilty that the rest of my team won’t get theirs for a while ...even though they’ve been urging me to book it 😕
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Hi all, hope everyone has recovered from vaccine side effects? I can now book mine....but what a fiasco! used my NHS number first and it came up saying ‘As you didn’t/couldn’t attend your first appointment you now need to rebook both’ 🤷♀️ Yesterday was the first time I’d been near the booking site, so continued but just a white page where the appointments should be, I then tried with my post code and that gave me appointments miles and miles away. Tried again this morning and just a blank white page so not sure if that means no available appointments or the site is down ....is it like booking a shopping slot? are there better times to try? I might just plead techno idiot (which isn’t far off the mark) and ask my surgery to take pity by letting me be added to the end of day now I’m the right age and that’s only 5 mins away. 🤔
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I think many of our area setting are now in the same predicament, I may just work through with dates I already had (finish Thurs 1st) and still finish 16th July .....sorry Gov I just presumed it was the same as the last couple of years 🙈
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We finish Thursday 1st April and back 19th April. I am really confused with our term dates as funding is only 11 weeks but we are open 11 weeks 4 days, we sometimes have the last week of spring funding included in the summer funding but it seems not this year and the end of summer won’t be until 23rd July to fit in the 13 summer funding weeks....which seems late to me 🙈
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I think they’ve spent all day in their pj’s, changing for PE is going to take forever! I think the children who have been in schools will also need support ...they are used to having the school to themselves, all that space, lots of teacher attention and formed new relationships that may be blown out of the water when the previous ‘besty’ rocks back up at school ...a lot for both sides to adjust too.
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I received an email from Ofsted one Friday afternoon, not seen until to late to call them, it just said to contact them at my earliest convenience, I spent a very worrying weekend thinking that someone must have complained to them or something, it turned out that a new committee member had ticked a wrong box on the EY2 and they wanted to check it ....are you going through that process at all? I did tell them how anxious their email had made me feel all weekend and surely it could have just said it was regards an EY2 query. What an awful experience to be going through Sian, I thought a while ago Ofsted were going to make some kind of stand against unfounded complaints because of how common it was becoming by parents just because they couldn’t get their own way and how much time it was wasting, if they didn’t they need to. Best Wishes
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We are only a couple off 30 back since after Xmas, around 14/15 a day but it’s creeping up now, I don’t want to cope with it either 🙈
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Wow zigzag, how many is all?, I’ve only heard a couple more are planning on returning next week (where did half ter go 😢) and a few more from 8th March though It wouldn’t surprise if some just turn up next week unannounced. I am having to put off April starters unfortunately due to staffing issues, parents have seemed great about it but always the worry they will find somewhere else to start them from April and with a big school cohort moving out I will need them 🤦♀️
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A big thumbs up to each and everyone one of you working in early years whatever your role 👍
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Oh happy birthday 🍷 🎂
