Mouseketeer
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We don’t either, most of our 2’s are funded (I’m not sure how with some of them 🤔), we are putting up fees for the first time in 3 years from April though, we do charge a small consumable charge for every hour we offer which helps, I try not to go over one staff’s worth of 2 yr olds per session as that’s where you lose the money.
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We are £15+, £11+, £9 L3 (I’m hoping the committee will agree to a bit above NMW for L3 with maybe another bit for long service), I don’t think it’s right that an experienced L3 is on the same rate as a newly qualified with no experience, in my setting the difference in taking responsibility/using initiative etc is vast and feel that needs recognition.
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FM - I hope the missing dad is found and that all your problems are rectified asap 🤞 zigzag - good luck with Ofsted, I’m sure you’ll smash it! Also having the pay increase discussions 🤦♀️ but on the plus side I have managed to recruit 2 experienced/L3 staff to start after Easter, we will be over-staffed again for the first time in a long while, but it will help with opening up places again, flexibility when someone is off and I get office time back 🎉 have a good weekend all 😊
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COVID rules
Mouseketeer replied to Emma Bailey_902595195's topic in Using the Forum – tips, news and future ideas
Hi Emma it’s a tricky situation to manage at the moment isn’t it? We have gone with 5 days isolation if tested positive and can return if well after that, the thinking behind that is people will only (in theory) be testing now because they have symptoms so are unwell anyway. We haven’t stipulated the 2 days negative in a row. The grey area for me will be if an asymptomatic staff member tests positive on LFD (even though we have stopped work testing), I’m inclined to think come to work and just be more cautious, maybe wear a mask inside, I’d be interested to know what others are doing in that situation 🤷♀️ -
Sounds fab, which I could come along 😔
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I find the delegate more is fine in theory but you have to find them time to do the delegated job, which usually means you covering them for longer than it would have taken to do the delegated job yourself in the first place and that is when they do it without involving you too so two people are then working on one task 🙈 I cross out Sat & Sun in my work diary, and make a TDL for the coming week, I split the page into traffic light dots, anything important ‘must get done this week’ goes under red dot, anything ‘it really needs doing this week but can carry over to next week’ goes under orange dot, and the ‘I’d like to get done but it makes no difference when’ goes under green dot, it does keep me focused on the have to get done jobs when time in the office is limited (like all the time at the moment 🙈)
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No chance…after the horse has bolted and all that! I’m going to quote this from the updated EY actions and thank them for their continued good judgement (to be fair apart from one (carer) our parents have been great about keeping off or picking up when asked). I can see my issue being staff who think children shouldn’t attend just because they sneezed but ok for them to come as they won’t get the ssp from day 1.
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How is it Friday tomorrow already 🤦♀️ Sorry to talk shop but has anyone updated their Covid plans yet? Are you just going with ‘advised’ or still still keeping in place the ‘musts’, it’s mainly the ‘advised to stay home and not have contact with others for 5 days if positive’, I want to say if pos you must stay off for 5 days, but who is going to bother with PCR tests for little ones now? I will definitely drive home ‘if they come in unwell they’ll be going home’ (hoping parents think it won’t be worth the hassle to be called back)…..do you think all the changes come about in the holidays as Gov know we’ll have time to sort it 🤷♀️
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B****y loads, my staff are very good at coming back from training, convincing me we need this, that and everything else which rarely gets put into practice 🙄
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We’ve had a big piece for years, purchased following training in developmental movement play, a lot of it was about forces, to be honest along with the giant scrunchie, yoga rolls and gym balls purchased on the back of said training it doesn’t come out much but it is fun, one child in each corner pulling and twisting it, pulled tight with a soft toy to bounce on it, I think I just bought it off ebay but you could try a fabric store.
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Thank you, we are red alert now and as Dorset had advised all schools to close we followed suit and to be fair funding were quick to email out saying it was your choice but you will keep funding 👏 I will probably venture in and do a bit of catch up later though. who else got out a day early for half term? stay safe everyone 🤞
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Mine doesn’t do that (iPad) jut the shared to clipboard …I didn’t even know there was a clipboard 😂
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It did say 16 hrs u til the next one, share just said ‘saved to clipboard’, no idea where that is on an iPad 🙈 It’s the same concept as the tv show Lingo Thanks
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Thanks Panda..so there isn’t an app? I keep seeing people post grids of squares (no letters) on Fb when they’ve done the days grid, I did the one today on nytimes.com (or think I did 🤔) but then thought it wasn’t the right thing as I couldn’t see how they were sharing from there?
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No but want to…how do you get it?
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It intrigues me that by sticking a pin in a bit of fluff you can make it look like something 🤷♀️ we all had leaves yesterday and some people had blue rockets but the leaves have vanished today 🧐
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Last crochet project and now back to knitting baby cardi’s 🧶 that is a fab blanket, I would have the patience for that. I started making a patchwork bed cover at high school but after 3 years it just about fit Sunday bed …that wasn’t for me, I’d really like to try felting sometime.
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Changes to EYFS pre school and Reception please
Mouseketeer replied to waveawand's topic in Staff Lounge
In theory it is Cait, we are much more about monitoring who is on track and with the right provision/resources/enhancements they’ll continue to progress naturally and putting more focus on how we can support the chn who aren’t progressing as we’d expect, we are more about what will the adults next step be than having hundreds for all the chn but it’s quite worrying this week to see how many managers are saying their Ofsted inspectors are giving recommendations because they don’t have written next steps, when all the webinars Jules mentions above are enforcing moving away from all that paperwork 🥺 -
There is that Louby! I write my newsletters with my heart first and then go back and rewrite using my head (will probably get me hung one day) ….this weeks ‘heart’ was “for f*** s*** after nearly 2 years which part of if we send them home with symptoms they need a PCR test don’t you get?” 🤭 it’s all so exhausting, they should know the drill by now 🙄
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🤣 wonder if it was the same person I had, offered 2 days, came back with ‘that’s great, they’ll come alternate Tuesdays & Thursdays and arrive at 10am’ ….I don’t think so 🧐
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We charge 30p an hour for funded 3 & 4 yr olds, we list it as snacks, seasonal activity resources, supplying waterproofs (we replace them for a pastime), visits/visitors (admittedly not much of that has happened for a while, the vast amount of hygiene products we go through (if they saw how many paper towels a child pulls out at a time they’d get it)., a few question it when they first get the invoice because they haven’t read what they’ve been given before booking a place but once explained they all pay. we submitted a funding claim of 4600 hours last term for our 3 & 4 yr olds, our funding rate is 68p less than our hourly rate giving a deficit of over 3K, why should we be expected to take hits like that term after term 🤷♀️
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This is the problem, no knowing what you’re going to be doing tomorrow or the day after and dropping it to days 5 & 6 has just added another ‘uncertain’ day to the equation 🙄 In theory I’m supernumerary (that isn’t the reality very often, even pre-Covid), so many children need a higher level of support that I feel bad just thinking ‘you’re in ratio get on with it’, I really don’t get how setting’s run to ratio …I take my hat off to them, but I’m sure no one gives a thought to the fact that a managers work doesn’t just disappear when covering ratio’s, especially if you’re the one doing all the admin as well as the childcare manager role 😞
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Haha yeah…’can I just run through this list of questions with you incase I need to report you to Ofsted’ 🙈
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This waiting for 2 neg tests 24 hours apart is making life more difficult than knowing someone was off for 10 days or a family is isolating for 10 days, now you don’t have a clue when staff will make it back or families should be out of isolation 🤷♀️
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That was it sunnyday ….very intrusive with what they thought we be telling them, now trying to back track and say it was for Cm’s who are the registered person but it clearly said ‘anyone working with children’ and anyone associated to settings ‘such as committee’ members amongst others 🤦♀️ They must have all taken medical degrees whilst ‘working from home’ 😖
