Mouseketeer

My surgery sent a flu text months ago saying it would be offered to 50+ with a tag line that basically said ‘don’t even bother asking as we don’t have enough’...but I guess they’re expecting too soonish, I’ve never had one before but went ‘yes’

Nor us, was it from your county? I have just had a text to ask if I was interested in a flu jab...if I reply ‘Yes’, they’ll let me know when they have supplies available 😕 we’ve made it through another week unscathed, hoping everyone else can say the same, bit of a ‘oh my we best give some serious thought to ‘C’ plans’ moment today 🎄

Isn’t she ever...I hope the younger ones don’t pander to her, I’m liking the castle though 🙂

We use Capita, was £52 last time I did a staff member, very quick (3 or 4 days) providing they don’t have a number of house moves.

It’s very frustrating zigzag, I had a committee member that we then employed, I phoned my Ey team and was told we had to reapply for a paid position dbs and there was a large fine if employees were found to be working on a volunteer dbs, my Gov dbs is enhanced but it is for a volunteer position, I was sent info years ago about being fined but I can’t find it now.

Because giving a straight answer to any question isn’t their thing 😔

I don’t think it’s about whether they already have an enhanced dbs but rather they can’t be paid on a volunteer dbs (I guess if they could we’d ask people to volunteer for a couple of weeks and pay £8.10 instead of £52)

We’ve used Tapestry since 2014 (I think, a good few years anyway), parent partnership was the main reason for moving to online and this has worked out very well, on the whole our parents are pretty good at using it, even those who don’t comment or add so much I can see they are viewing obs/newsletters etc and if they’re not they get a gentle nudge, I say a gentle nudge it’s more ‘have you forgot your password’ 😆 We use it for cohort tracking (I find the group Summative in school years and the Age Band tracker most useful for this), it shows where individual chn need next steps but also if we need to improve provision e.g. if our oldest boys didn’t show much progress from the previous term in writing what can we add to promote this? (That is the only planning we do) Time: Many people say it saves time compared to the paper learning journal, we haven’t really found this, staff still need time out of ratio to add and assess for their key children (but I think a lot of that is because they do too much that isn’t necessary). Top tip: Ensure staff are consistent in the band a child is working at, going back to pick up missed statements or selecting one in a higher band when they aren’t really secure in the previous will throw the progress tracking. Reflections: Great for sharing info, policy updates etc with staff, staff can add CPD feedback, add handouts and suggest for discussion anything we should/could implement, we can add any changes we want to make so it’s kind of our SEF too. (Love this feature). Negative for us personally: I would like to be able to just pick up things you know chn can do from the DM screen (I know, I know, don’t shoot me), as some analysis screens work on selected statements and if you don’t ‘tick’ statements a couple screens don’t give you any information. Care diary /accident reports: I can’t comment on as we don’t use, I just haven’t taken the time to work out how really. Reports: These are great for shared setting info, 2 yr checks, transition reports.. On the whole I can’t imagine working without it now, good luck 🙂

Crumbs you’ve been busy and put me to shame 😱 hoping you’re granddaughter is ok

I think you’re right sunnyday, it seems a very relaxed lockdown, except for the poor businesses who have had to shut up shop again. the question came up as a parent told me that both sets of grandparents would still be collecting, one set as mums ‘childcare bubble’ and one set as dads ‘childcare bubble’ .

It seems slightly stacked against non-single parents who both work, you’d have thought the main carer could have both bubbles and the non-main carer a support bubble.

Hi all, hope you’ve had a good week, drama free here which I’ll take. Do any of you have families affected by the ‘support’ and/or ‘childcare’ bubbles? We have had a couple families (not single parents)who use both sets of grandparents but have now nominated which set will be their childcare bubble yet we have children with single parents who now seem to have 4 bubbles going on, each single parent of said children can have a support bubble each and a childcare bubble each .....is this correct or am I miss reading the guidance?

I had reams of it too from when we were all sat here trying to work out the formula, my fee loss was still higher in Feb than now but my funding much higher so can’t see it being worth bothering with again. sorry to read about your son, hope he’s soon over it, this trace and contact system is a shambles isn’t it, I don’t know of many being tested but the home test kit people seem to get their results quicker, even allowing for it having to be posted back than the testing at the centres 🤷‍♀️I have a friend that has signed up for weekly testing of the whole family for research...what a waste of resources, taking up lab time to get results when surely there are enough people turning up for tests they could ask to be part of the research without sending people around to houses creating more work 😠

Nor me Lynned, I’d be hard pushed to remember how I worked it out last time 🤦‍♀️

Thanks sunnyday, best wishes to you too and everyone else, hopefully we won’t have to cope with too many challenges 🤞

Ohhhhhh how is it the end of half term already 😢 I hope the run up to the end of term is kind to you all 🙏

We set up a charity pay pal account with a view of people buying via that but I have no idea how you know who has bought which tickets ....I guess someone on the committee does 🤷‍♀️

That’s good to hear, are you selling raffle tickets via a platform like PayPal?

Great idea, it looks like a good resource, we are planning a big online raffle as we can’t do usual fundraising events this half term but have to sort the council licence out first to sell tickets so hopefully that will be just a quick submit the application, pay the fee and away we go 🙂

3. Peace at last I’m not great with titles/authors...I’d be hard pushed to tell you the title of the book I’m reading now 🙈

We sent a couple of symptomatic chn home last week (thankfully both negative) they both had tests booked with in an hour if us phoning the parents, we’re quite rural so an hours drive to nearest testing stations/hospitals but not so bad.

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I think that’s it until you need to have a staff member or member of their household tested I think, then you upload that excel sheet by 3.30pm (wasn’t it?) to be honest I think I’d only bother with it if someone was struggling to book a test but getting the test around here doesn’t seem to be the problem it’s the time taken to get the results back 😞

A little late but Happy Birthday ...sounds like you had a nice day 🙂

Well done panders ⭐️ JATGP