All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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Hi All, We have been given some money and have arranged to take our children to Twinlakes for a day trip in 4 weeks time. I have been myself not long ago and have now got to do a risk assessment! I don't know where to start- there are so many risks. We do have enough adults going to have 1 adult per 2 children and 2 first aiders coming. Any advice please! :1b
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Union For Nursery Staff?
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Dear all, I was doing a search for which union I could join, but couln't find anything obvious. I work in a Private Nursery, so UNISON won't work, I am not a QTS, so NUT won't either. What have others done? thanks for any tips in the right direction. x Titania
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We have a couple of children who have just learnt how to do threading. I can't see where in the development matters i could link this too? I was thinking physical development due to the use of fine motor skills but can't find anything linked to threading! Where would you put threading?
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Good to hear we are not alone and that parents aren't only thinking about having cheaper childcare Link taken from Nursery World Edit...would have been interesting to know if her heart rate increased under the pressure of the questions!
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We need to put more displays at eye level but are struggling with how to fasten pictures to the wall. If we use blu tac they take it off and pins are obviously a no no. Any suggestions?
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Ratio Petition
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Have you signed and shared this petition against ratio changes? https://www.change.org/keepratiosdown?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_before_sign Its 20 thousand plus strong and has support of big organisations such as NCMA and PLA and a whole host of early years 'names and experts'. Also the Lead on the Petition Penny Webb has an excellent blog http://pennysplacechildminding.com/2013/02/03/truss-versus-those-who-know-about-early-years/ Please do sign and share with colleagues, other settings, friends, clients, relatives and neighbours.
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Have spoken to a social worker who is working with one of our families. The great news is that she is handing over to a support worker as the family are doing so brilliantly. I am unable to make the meeting due to staffing issues next week. She has asked me to write a report of how the child is doing. I have never done one of these before and was wondering if it is acceptable to send his EYFS progress check as this would show that developmentally he is right where he needs to be and also a more personal report which would focus much more on his PSED. Any advice or a diffrent format suggestion would be much appreciated. Should just say that it was never really a child…
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I was doing invoices at the end of each week BUT 1. I was spending a whole chunk of my precious weekend working with books (not my strong point!) 2. Some of my parents (despite my procedures and contracts outlining the facts) were treating my setting as a babysitting - no show = no payment. I then gave them 2 months notice and changed to Invoicing once a month in advance. Some parents are still paying weekly but on time. Thats fine, but I only receipt once a month. Some parents are now 2 months in arrears. Some parents are not paying in advance. Still paying once a month at the end of each month. If I have changed my payment policy and parents have all sig…
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Has anyone been inspected under the new EYFS? any tips would be appreciated. Thanks
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Hi all, We are looking into getting a mobile classroom built and hoping to place it on the grounds of a local primary school and plan to offer pre-school sessions in the morning and an after school club. Has anyone got any advice on how to approach the schools? and what we need to ask them etc.? Also, any ideas of how we can get the money? our only idea at the minute is to get finance from the building company (they do offer this option) or a loan from the bank I know there is lots to think about and we want to find everything out before we get started!! Any advice at all would be brilliant :1b
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