Mouseketeer
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How fast do these weekends go, is it ever going to stop raining sad hope your 2nd half term goes well louby 🤞
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🎈 🎂 🥂 Happy 21st Year FSF ….cake sounds good 👍
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Or the ones who had the extra HP being asked for it back 🤦♀️
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It’s been confusing all along, I was going on the sentence that said it will be a reduction in holiday pay 🤷♀️
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I’m surprised more hasn’t been made of this, we also had the same email from EYA, it’s reads to me that as we use them for payroll our holiday pay will automatically revert to what it was before we went to 5.6 weeks from Sept, I’m going to speak to our committee about letting staff keep a week of pro-rata hours to use as time off provided it can be covered (not easy as things are with staffing).
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The whole debacle of term time staff having the same 5.6 wks has been overturned and we are back to what equates to that 12.7%/4.3 weeks, EYA payroll sent an email about the change a couple of weeks ago , to be fair it didn’t seem right to have the same paid holiday as an all year round worker (though as all managers of a term time setting know it isn’t really paid holiday, it’s pay for working the holidays). We have a really early have term in our county -12th to 16th, maybe you have the 5 wk next half term when we’ll have a 6?
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I get that more people need to train and believe dropping the need for all to have maths (rightly or wrongly) should entice school leavers back into training, but what about keeping the experienced staff in Early Years, they are leaving on mass, mainly to become assessors if Fb is anything to go on ….who the hell will be left to assess 🤣 only a week to half term ….. I love that holidays were created to get the work done you can’t do in your employed weeks …and now we have to to give one of them back 😞 have a good weekend all
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Good news Louby, my recruiting isn’t going so well and now looking like the deputy wants out 😭
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Thanks all, much better today, it’s ramping up here too and chn are coming when parents have it as no reason not to anymore and with no vaccine boosters now I guess there’s no avoiding it.
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Lovely news zigzag 💍 a Covid kind of weekend here 🙄 probably expected as we’ve had a couple of chn in this week who’s parents have it, feels like it’s giving up the fight today though 🤞 hope no one is affected by storm Isha 💨 🌧
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Hi Sloppy and welcome to the forum. I have been committee managed for 30+ years, I would start with a conversation with the manager and ask how they see your role in relation to theirs, my committees have been more about fundraising and making fee/wage decisions, but I know some committees are much more pro-active and deal with finances (or have an admin), do staff supervisions and appraisals (I expect the chair to sit in with annual appraisals), personally I’d like to be asked now and again if everything is ok. I make sure my chair knows the safer recruitment procedures as they are the employer, who is responsible for what roles in the staff team, make sure they have a copy (or link) to the statutory framework, maybe ask the manager to take you on the learning walk as they would for an inspection, it will give you an insight into how and why things are done as they are, spending some time in the setting will give you an idea of the challenges staff are facing. As Cait says EYA (if members) have lots of info and you’re LA will likely officer training. Good Luck and we’ll done for taking on the role.
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Hi All that’s week one down….roll on half term or at least a snow day (though not looking likely here) 😜 good to read about the positives of the week and sorry for the lows, hope your daughter at least got her things back louby 🤞
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Good to hear everyone is having a good Xmas period 😊 Loved the magnet chess too, bought for a 7 yr old but the 2 yr old, obviously totally missing the point thought it was hilarious when the stones jumped together ….I was a little sorry they took it home 🤣 I wish you all a happy and healthy 2024 🥂
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Have a a good festive period everyone and Best Wishes for 2024 🎄 🔔 🎅🏻 good news Gezabel!
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Hang on in there, you’re almost done ….one more sleep 💤
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Crumbs Froglet, that isn’t long 😔
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Is that for Easter hols? We are up to the Thurs before good Friday ….expect I’ll regret that later 🙄
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yeah a week (or 4 days) to go it’s been a toughy, not that I expect it to be any easier next term. When are you back Louby? We’re not till the 8th pleased to read things are looking positive sunnyday. Have a good weekend all 😊
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Hi all 👋 Hope things look up soon sunnyday, make time for you to. How is there only 2 weeks to go but so much to fit in 🤯 hope those of you still working have a good run up to end of term 🤞 a bit of a snow flurry here yesterday but nothing to write home about, just flippin 🥶 Have a good weekend all 😊
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Wonderful news, Best Wishes to you all and look forward to more of your positive updates 💙
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Crumbs I seem to have lost a whole week, how has that happened 🤷♀️and now all this Christmouse talk, I’ll have to dust my outfit down soon🎄 All the end of term stuff seems to be hurtling at me like a high speed train 😳 Have a good weekend all, hope the air fryer experience is a good one, and if not you can put it in the ‘why did I think I wanted that’ cupboard along with the bread maker, sandwich toaster, Forman grill, coffee machine and that thing from pampered chef for chopping stuff up……or is that just me 🤣
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That’s good zigzag, a loose fence panel is a result I’d say, I have just been watching the south west coast clips on the news 😔 our area was more the flooding issues and all the roads being impassable, schools opened but closed at lunch time again so a number of our children left early.
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Hope you all stay safe tonight/tomorrow, especially those of you further down in the south west 💨 🤞
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I hadn’t seen that Gezabel, we also have a Using devices policy/staff agreement so hopefully that would suffice, I would think they’d have to publish a new framework if/when all the proposed changes are signed off 🤷♀️ I’m thinking that not enough thought has been given to this managers/maths thing, there will need to be a lot more detail, especially around deputies, I actually think they should have L3 but as they don’t if they were covering the manager would they need the maths or if they were to step up to the managers position in the same setting would they/wouldn’t they need maths? So pleased to hear thing's are going well, look forward to more of your positive updates 😊
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I did Midsummer’s Night Dream 😴 I don’t think they’ve dropping the requirement for English, though I have staff with A level English that can’t spell or use grammar 🙄
