Mouseketeer
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last time round it ‘keep them at home if you can’, this time it’s ‘send them in or we’re withholding your funding’ ....I feel like the bad guy telling parent’s we can’t claim their funding if they don’t send ....it’s little short of blackmail 🤬
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Hi, which county are you? I’ve seen a number already saying theirs will cover it (Cornwall, Southampton, northumberland)
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I remember those times 🙈
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Hi Cait, nice to see you you, I’m thinking that if half our chn are off and we don’t get to claim their funding we will suffer a big loss, just yesterday we would be down close on £300 in lost funded hours 🤦♀️
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I’m with you there! 2 staff have said today for different reasons that they don’t want to work, we’ve had nearly half our chn pulled out and I will go into ratio when needed so doable until parents change their minds and more want to come back, no idea at this point if we will get a U-turn on funding and no idea if they are entitled to furlough or have to take it as unpaid leave, I’m guessing furlough is out as one won’t be available to work if required anyway and not even sure we’d have anything much to claim furlough from unless funding doesn’t come through, I guess I should be reading up about it rather than being on here .....is it half term yet? :’(
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Pre-Schools staying open!!!
Mouseketeer replied to DebBrad's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
Sums it up...good luck to you all 🌟
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This made me lol ...good plan! I am shocked and truly believe this is a finance decision and nothing else, my county have emailed this morning to say no funding if chn don’t attend (did they already know what was coming?) and telling parents this feels like I’m blackmailing them to keep their chn in when really the more that pull out at the moment the better but it would be a massive financial hit if the funding decision isn’t changed ....and what’s one more U-turn going to matter 🤔
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Best Wishes to you too zigzag and to everyone else starting back this week 🤞 I haven’t heard that any of my chn aren’t coming back even though a few were kept off in the lead up to Xmas.
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My staff each have their own log in, a made up email and pin.
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I’ve not heard from anyone on my committee either and my staff team make it clear they are on holiday yet no one cares that we are supposed to be too and an employee too, it’s a lonely place 😞
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Thank you sunnyday 😊
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They really do believe that we get inside information don’t they?, if it wasn’t for groups like this how would we know anything? Has any one even received as much as a message of support from their EY teams as we prepare to open again? I bet the first we hear is when they want their endless surveys completed again 😠 We’ve asked parents to layer them up but we had to move some indoors the last week of term as it got so cold and some were crying because their hands and feet hurt, we have a number of windows cracked open but also ended up putting the heating on, it was hard to type or even concentrate on work as it was so cold indoors too 🥶
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Other than being told the new strain is affecting children more they are keeping very quiet about how many, age %, what their symptoms are and how many are becoming seriously ill.....either because they don’t want to scare parents into keeping their chn home or we’d all be refusing point blank to open, I’d be with you on staying closed if it wasn’t deemed safe enough for the primary schools to go back next week...that makes no sense ☹️
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Go sunnyday I’m proud of you and just a little bit envious! How has it gone down? You should have pushed your luck and tried for half term 🤣
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Wishing my forum friends and everyone at Team Tapestry a happy and healthy new year, thank you all for the virtual advice, thoughts and comradeship that helped me through this crappy year of furlough, bubbles and endless cleaning! 🥂
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That’s just crazy!
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He really is a right drip, painful to listen too ! we have gone to tier 3, how about anyone else?
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I prefer to wear the face shields and even forget I’ve got one on, as Lynned said I think masks are more about protecting others (though they must give some protection to your mouth and nose but if you don’t wear glasses you’re eyes are still exposed). If you do wear glasses but don’t have shields you can laminate a clear sheet, cut a curved bottom to face shape and use those tiny hair gripper things to attach to the arms of your glasses (I guess those tiny clothes pegs would work too). Whatever you decide for next week stay safe...I best make an effort and do some work as I can’t see them keeping us closed 🤔
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It is annoying that we just have to figure out what means us, it wouldn’t take another 2 seconds to add ‘early years’ and make us at least feel like we count for something 😞 I feel more concerned about returning this time around than I did when we went back in June, I’m thinking I will give staff the option of masks or shields, the children are so used to seeing people in them and we wear them at drop off/home time that it will seem common place to them now.
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Not that I’ve seen, but weirdly enough after posting that I had an across the road chat with a neighbor who said her son didn’t make Christmas Day because her elderly mother was coming too and he’d had a runny nose and sneezing for a couple of days so thought he’d best get tested in case and he was positive, only lasted that couple of days and no other symptoms before or after 😧
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Pleased to read you all had a pleasant Christmas. Back to reality and working on updating the covid action plan and saw this, looked up the nhs website and wondered why anyone is going to ‘continue’ isolating with symptoms we haven’t been told to isolate for in the first place, all along a runny nose and sneezing is just a cold and ok to attend...now how do we manage this 🤷♀️
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Not sure, was thinking we might go back to KW chn only for a bit but we are staying in tier 2 (for the time being) how has everyone else fared in the tier lottery?
