Mouseketeer
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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 🙄
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Thanks louby, hope you have a good 2nd half term 🤞 More changes to get our heads around for January, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only reason the need for maths is being dropped (unless new or changing job managers) is so that people won’t be able to work out how underpaid they are 🤪 But I can see it creating an even bigger loss for experienced managers who don’t already have maths, they’ll either be stuck in a job they’re not happy in or leave full stop as they won’t want to do a maths qualification to move jobs 😔
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I wasn’t sure about the first (took a while to get going), already had the 2nd, pleased I read it as was way better than the 1st and thought the 3rd was better again, waiting for the 4th now 📚
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Isn’t it ever! Some days I only achieve the things that weren’t on the list to start with so if I didn’t do that it would look like I haven’t done anything 🙄
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How I envy you zigzag
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Hi JJ and welcome 😊 I add things to the list after I’ve done them just so I can tick them off ✔️
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Don’t know what planet some these parents are on now, I tell myself nothing else they say or do or don’t say or do can shock me …..and then it does 🤦♀️ I do that to with the constantly late arrivers 🫢
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It’s such hard work, I hate doing things it bits and pieces instead of just getting the job done, if they all got the same thing wrong I’d think it was my guide sheet but they just don’t read what’s been given 😞 I had that happen too zigzag, it took a whole week of Ofsted speaking to HMRC (Ofsted tell HMRC, they update who is on the childcare voucher registration 🤦♀️) Ofsted wouldn’t speak to me as I was no longer the NP, Ofsted require notifications for this that and everything else yet can let that happen at the click of a wrong answer without even checking 🤷♀️
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Well it’s been two weeks of hand holding new committee members here to get the forms/checks done, Thankful to have new members but OMG 🤯 topped off when one of them said ‘I can’t think of anyone to sign the ID check form’, I said “please bring me the ID with the forms and I can do the ID check as the Ofsted registered nominated person” (they had simple guidance telling them this), their reply “oh, I thought it had to be a professional” …..says it all really doesn’t it 🥺
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Staff communication
Mouseketeer replied to EldenePreschool's topic in Early Years Setting Management
Hi, welcome to the forum, I tend to use Reflections if I want to share something with all staff, they can add comments/thoughts too, because staff really only use the app I do add a key child each so they see the notification for it (parents don’t see reflections), I think documents set to staff only would work but I haven’t tried it so not sure how staff know anything has been added. -
Looks wonderful zigzag, please you have a good time 😊 💃🏻 🕺 (for panders), the right person went, glad he didn’t get the idiots underdog votes as often happens, the others all seem quite good this early on.
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What wonderful news for you Gezabel, Best Wishes to you all for a healthy pregnancy 🤞
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No idea how/why my reply is in the quote box louby 🤷♀️ welcome to the forum Miss Hilton, I take my hat off to you and all Reception teachers/TA’s, we can find it difficult to manage with 8:1 with the higher number of children with challenging behaviours we seem to have now, and 6 weeks later you get to do it with likely only 2 of you and having to get the phonics and maths in 😔, we recognise many chn aren’t as ‘school ready’ as cohorts in the past were, toilet training is happening much later, independence doesn’t seem to be on the agenda at home and sadly technology as a babysitter has a lot to answer for. Good luck, hopefully other reception teachers will come along with some helpful strategies 🤞
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Hope everyone’s week has gone well and you haven’t all melted 🥵🤞 We unusually have more in the 2025 yr group than 2024, so 9 has seemed like 90 at times 🙈, sessions have chopped and changed which has meant a whole register reprint today 😞 and I’ve never known a group of parents who can’t return the requested paperwork 🤷♀️ have a good weekend ☀️
