louby loo

I complained in tesco's. I could get it my local small branch (old market town) yet not in the massive one a tad further away.I

I was told 'you have to look at your client/customer base- in my market town; lots of older WI types this= lots of old school home baking.

In the other store, big new housing complexe, mainly working families = fast, quite convenient baking, or more often none at all.

That said, I get it in Bookers now anyway as its in a bigger tub.

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thank-you :1b Mine arrived safely this morning too

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SueJ

That mirrors exactly what out EH officer told me.

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I x door opening whippet - have to watch that one!

1 x Shirley Temple -

2 x sad but not inconsolable

Not to bad really, I think we may have got of light this year :1b

Not sure about other preschools, but with us our years tend to fluctuate - as in the amount leaving for school. This year we only lost 18 to school, so therefore a relatively small intake of newbies now, - last year it was very high.

How long before he's independent?

Will he go back out in the wild, are will he need to become domesticated (if that's the correct term)?

I've never seen a baby squirrel - yet we have lots of grown ones in the garden - and plenty of baby walnut and conker trees at random points in garden too (and many many more holes in the lawn!!!)

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I think the 'amount' has a lot to do with it.

Our EH officer is a very down to earth person saying as a preschool -as apposed to full day care - we probably produce far less nappy waste per week than the average family with babies/young children therefore she had no issues with as disposing of as normal waste.

Not sure if this is true or not.

For us, we asked when EH paid us a visit, and she was more than happy with us just disposing with in normal waste. We're a pre school like you, I would say we would prob have a max of 6-8 a day at the very most- and that soon drops and often we have none.

If you do a forum search the topics been covered a few times.

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Could you have a 'second' deputy. We actually have two, they job share and are paid according which role they are working.

Thanking you muchly :1b :1b :1b

If they are still available, we would love -

Helping children to think creatively

Critical skills in the early years.

Please :1b

I maybe wrong, but it is my understanding that either manager or deputy always onsite.

Have you checked in the EYFS documents?

I'm preschool, so never really been an issue- but can see how it's not so easy with full day-care. However that said in every full day nursery I have worked in the manger and deputy have always done early/late shifts.

I know the feeling thumper!!!

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I could be totally wrong here - but I think the NHS side of the changes to 2-3 checks becomes legal in Sept 15 I think?

My thinking is that they are recruiting more 'nursery nurse' type people to aid this (I know in our are we have L3 that support health visitors)....Well this is all very good, BUT as most of you lot know - some (and I must stress SOME not all) the level three training is not a comprehensive as it used to be. In some courses it appears child development is not really covered in very much depth.

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That's because he deserved to!!!! :rolleyes:

Some (most) of the others were seriously wishy washy :blink:

When you sent the link, I did read them all and picked the genuinely most deserving. :1b :1b

Congratulations - you must be so proud. :1b

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I asked EH about this when we had a visit from them. She told us not to refrigerate - as once we do that we are accepting responsibility for storage, and as a we don't know what's happened to food before we get it this really is not a good idea.

She said it was up to parents to provide safe storage (ice packs etc)

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Crikey that's a bit confusing! We get given the LA term dates with the pd days marked on so we just have to follow those! Don't have any of this financial year stuff, thankfully they just tell us when to accept the funding, didn't realise it was different anywhere else!!

Are you full year or session? Asking as we worked out that the year before last (I think?) it actually worked out that the staff contract run from sept-aug, so we actually worked 39 weeks!!! Contacted now run April-march. Until that point we had simply been following the school calendar.

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(Sorry stargrower- we've hijacked your post :-( . ) xxx

Our 38 weeks runs over the financial year- and our LA won't 'carry over' so we have to finish by 31 march regardless of Easter.

We have to have a 15 week autumn term this year. (Ok- it might be 14 but I'm brain fried already - we started this week and finish 19th dec)

We usually choose to start back early, then finish a week early christmas - this works wells for us, as staff with children themselves get a week for their own shopping and get to see all shows and concerts etc.

I like raisins.. :blink:

I like Christmas... :blink:

Both will stay :1b

And Narnia - talking of Christmas...

Will you have a Santa/Father Christmas this year?

• Will he be of a certain high?
• Chimney or doorway?

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Thanks so much! I wish I could find the printer friendly version anyone? lol probably asking too much now haha

I've printed from that link .... To a tinny weeny a4 size . No one will enable to read it without good glasses though!!!

Still I can flap it around and then say my own thing :-) xxx

Actually I try to discourage using long term developmental milestones as objectives for weekly planning - how are you going to make that kind of developmental shift in such a short space of time!!

I encourage people to word the objective in terms of the actual learning they want to happen - in their own words!!

Using what are essentially summative assessment criteria to plan helps to identify areas of focus in your teaching for longer term outcomes and you can use anything you like. The educational programmes in the statutory framework link directly to the statutory ELGs because you assess the progress of the child in the educational programme through the ELGs. Hence the EYFSP only references ELGs. Everything else is to support assessing progress along to way but is merely guidance and therefore non statutory. Use, don't use, but precision teaching is IMHO best focused on the actual small steps you are planning for the week or day.

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I'm so glad you said that. Our next steps are always very small and ongoing- I always worry that it's not a enough.

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So right Sue.

For example on that list it says 'chicken pox' 5 days after onset of rash.

We stand by our policy which says 'once the last spot has scabbed over' - we keep to this in the interest of the child. They play in sand, water and playdough, they 'need' to be scabbed over :lol:

Unfortunately (well fortunately really!!) we have to put the child first rather than a working parent.

That said - it's easier for us as a term-time sessional setting, and it must be really hard - even draining - to have to work with working parents and the pressure they too are under not being able to get childcare cover for sick children :(

I fully funded my own degree from foundation degree upwards as I've never seemed to be in the right place at the right time :-(. However I wanted the degree for 'myself' as a long term ambition.

A member of my staff was about to take a student loan to do her level three, but we managed to find funding at the very last minute- so now that's fully funded- which I am happy about.

In my mind it shows a true commitment to the role, I also have staff that have 'fallen' into the job and will only do qualifications if they are fully paid for. Now that person is not really happy that the other is doing a funded L3 - but I could only choose one person, so I went for the one most committed to the role!

I think it's not so much the paperwork per-say ..... It's more the fact this 'paperwork' takes no official format.

Planning- is mine enough/ to much ?

Adult lead - is mine enough/to much?

Learning journeys - enough/to much?

We get 2 yr checks from a setting a short walk from us and they are totally different from ours.

Interesting. My son's school sent out information last term issued by our local council which stated that children only neeeded to be kept off school for 24 hours following diorrohea and vomiting. I assumed the rules had changed so maybe there is a more recent document out there somewhere. I haven't found it though.

Call me cynical, but I think that's more to do with attendance figures than infection control.....

We've got 48 hours clearly stated in our policies, and point this out when parents start with the.. 'but the school says 24'

I did read somewhere that early years need 48 hours as they are not so 'in control' of their own personal hygiene, where as slightly older children are better at washing hands etc.