Mouseketeer
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I’m impressed sunnyday, mine seems to be cross off one thing add two 🤦♀️
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Hi and welcome, I use the staff observation tracker to see this, go to tracking, general, and it’s there, you can check periods or customize the dates you want to check, it shows how many each child has had and who did them 🙂
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I only had one today, if I hadn’t seen it on here about reregistering to log in I would have ignored it....I also feel we get nothing for our membership but when I’ve looked into other insurance theirs still comes out less with the added membership fee.
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It’s ridiculous that we have so much to sort out and all we get is a teeth cleaning publication 😠
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Don’t feel guilty ...it isn’t fair that people can make us feel like they do and think it’s ok 🥺
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We have always discouraged parents from stopping with their child (since our smaller entrance isn’t suitable for hoards), feeling it only delays the inevitable, if the child is truly showing no signs of settling after a short time we ask them to come back and then spend a little bit of time in the setting before taking the child home (though I’m not planning on this September)sometimes we set a plan to come back in one hour and build it up to a full session over a few sessions) if it’s just white noise between being distracted we usually plough on, if we know a child will be upset on arrival we ask the parent to be a few minutes late rather than early so hand over doesn’t tie up a member of staff at a busy time being a 1:1 and it’s calmer in the cloak room. I also remember the days when parents would stay whole sessions and would even still be there ‘muddling in’ when their child was fine, I guess that was before the days of stringent safeguarding and Dbs checks and no one had mobile phones to worry about 😝
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Thanks Anju, we will be 42 + 6 staff across the week and it just feels like to many, I just don’t know what to do, one staff down and bubbles would have to go because of ratios (I usually cover staff absence but would be in ratio a lot more already) I’ve asked staff for their thoughts but get nothing back.
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Is anyone else beginning to feel overwhelmed with all the decisions we’re having to make regards September with little to go on and even less in the way of committee support or other staff interest? if you’re going back as a normal group in one room how many children and adults will mix across the week in your setting?
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Hi JM, congratulations (I think) on headship, how big is your school? we opened again in June and the chn just breezed back in and adjusted as if they’d never been gone which was such a relief so I’m not overly concerned about how my returners will cope, though a few have been off the whole time it was many of our middle group who returned rather than the leavers (there will be the wobbles as there always are with a couple following holidays I’m sure), but I don’t have a clue how we are going to support our new very young ones, a few only turn 2 days before starting, I’ve asked parents to consider half days for a while until settled in but that went down like a lead balloon (2 yr funding has a lot to answer for). I’m planning staggered meet and greets with KPs before going back for new ones as some haven’t even been in yet. I haven’t thought about a covid settling policy, sounds like a plan, if you don’t mind me asking what do you have it? I am also still considering returning in 2 bubbles rather than 40+ chn and 7 staff all mixing freely to minimise the risk of a ‘one out all out’ scenario....but tomorrow it could be back to ‘ what’s the point’ 😞
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It really needs to be doesn’t it, the schools will have class bubbles but chn from each class could well go to the BS/AS clubs and be looked after by the same adult, I’m still undecided on the shared setting with all the other things open that chn can attend now and families mixing (from posts I see or get shown on Fb they are really mixing 😔), then staff are ‘what are you going to do about that’ and you feel like you’ve turned into ‘constable covid’ (other spellings are available) trying to manage everyone’s behaviour and the expectations on you to keep everyone safe whilst having a nervous breakdown yourself ☹️
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We so do, our guidance is still that staff shouldn’t be working in more than one place yet the very recent guidance for schools says that’s acceptable, one of our staff also works as a TA, how can you ask someone to give up a job? there are so many decisions to make with no real guidance and what do we get?..... ‘how to clean a toothbrush’ 😡
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I hadn’t even considered the toileting accidents, I’m sure there are some fantastic places and I think I read x amount of children to 10sq mts but I can’t see how they can keep chn in their own 10mts sq 🤷♀️
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I’ve only ever been to a couple but they never seem the most hygienic places at the best of time ...they have such enclosed spaces and do they have someone following each child around to clean dribbles and sneezes ....it’s crazy that one of our children can go to these places yet we’re supposed to still ask parents to choose one setting only 🧐
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Hi Kat not ‘starting’ the transfer as such but was thinking more something to give the setting you need to send it to you a nudge through Tapestry, maybe I just need to be more patient 😉
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Brilliant! And the stripes even match ...I don’t reckon you’ll need to wear them tonight though 🥵
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Hi, could it be made possible to allow receiving settings to request a transfer from an existing setting? I find I end up with the duplicates because sometimes you have to chase for the transfer to be started and then you feel like you’re keeping on for it and it still doesn’t happen before a child starts with you 🙁
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Fortunately we have a big school cohort returning (lost 10 less this year) with around 1/4 on register being 30hr chn.
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Ours estimate doesn’t have to be for another week yet so will be quite accurate 🙂
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I know it says we don’t need bubbles in the latest guidance but I just don’t see how that is a good idea (one out all out) and then in the same guidance goes on to say ‘we need to manage how we’ll minimise contact between groups’, so which is it 🤷♀️ but with that in mind I’m planning on splitting as a couple of key groups in each bubble (not quite worked out the logistics of which KG with which, I need to ensure a strong staff member with each bubble as well as who works what days), my other idea was to work out which chn only see certain chn over the week, far more complicated and would mean KC wouldn’t necessarily be with their KP. do you have a plan yet FM? (Or anyone else - am I missing a more obvious way to do it?)
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Ours have now said to submit the estimate for Autumn term as if normal and if this Autumn is less than last to contact them 🙂
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I’ve also been reading this 🤦♀️ I’m the only one the wrong side of 50 but would hate to have to leave my team to get on with it whilst I’m stuck at home, I could continue with a lot of my work at home but I tend to be in ratio a bit more in the Autumn term due to the number of 2yr olds starting ...something else to worry about 🥺
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I’m sure you’re right....we’re wired to think everything through to the nth degree, so when I’m then spraying the spray the queue is looking at me like ‘what is she doing’ 🤪
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You should all create a book on the ‘woes after lockdown’....but it is true about being left to it now, we have to spray our own trolley now which I have no problem with except everyone is handling the bottle of spray instead of the one person on door duty 🦠
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Not heard from my county but hoping they fund to best outcome for settings, normal for us would be better as we have a big school year and higher funding due than Spring 20
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The PO debacle made me chuckle SD 🤭 ours is the size of a shoebox and you have to navigate past the person taking forever to choose a card ...”just pick a b****y card will you, here have this one”! 🤬
