Mouseketeer
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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?
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It didn’t seem fair that she went out against someone who had been in the dance off pair how many times?
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Sounds like a good plan, I hope it works out ok for you 🙂 -
Thank you Lynned, I’m so sorry to hear how your term has ended after getting so close to the end, hoping you (and everyone else), don’t carry any blame (easier said I know) but no amount of planning, risk assessing or cleaning is going to stop it once someone carrying the virus brings it through the door, I hope you stay well and can enjoy Christmas with your family ....sending a virtually distanced hug 🤗
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Thank you Sunnyday, just a week to hang in there....everything is crossed 🤞
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It might not seem much per hour or session but it’s surprising how it adds up isn’t it? welcome to the forum 🙂
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I will be so pleased to get everyone out now, our local primary school so far have had no confirmed cases but a not so far away high school was closed completely on Wednesday through to Jan opening following advice from PHE so they must have taken a hit 😕
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I’d be livid too Louby, it’s so thoughtless/selfish 😡
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Well done on being brave enough to take the decision to close this Friday 🎩 of to you, was waiting on a result to know if even opening tomorrow but thankfully that has come back negative.
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PayPal fees cost us 20p per transaction +1.4% (the £1 donations were costly), you can’t just run a raffle through PayPal though so had to find a platform that would allow a raffle and there weren’t many of those, we came across ‘total giving’ eventually and setting it up as a charity was free, (we had to include everything that should be on a ticket in the blurb) you then had to choose a payment option from 3 (I hadn’t heard of a couple so stuck with PayPal). FFC - It does seem unfair that some counties are still dead against making a consumables charge when they’re clearly not giving us enough, my county tell parents to expect it now on the parent funding agreement terms, we say it covers snack, seasonal activity supplies, visitors, we supply waterproofs, at the moment it’s all the extra cleaning products we are getting through. Our charge doesn’t cover the difference lost between hourly funding rate and fee rate but it will be an extra 1.5k on the Spring 2021 term, some are just charging the difference end of. what will your county do if you introduce it? I keep reading the living wage is going up by 19p an hour but funding only 8p an hour, I wonder how some manage their budgets when they can’t work out 1x 19p an hour against 8 x 8p an hour is still a profit 🤔
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Our FFC is now 30p an hour and there isn’t anything optional about it 🤭 great planning on the getting out earlier...enjoy 🙂
