Early Years Setting Management
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I was just looking at the new Statutory Guidance that Sue kindly posted and have been thinking about the "stretched" offer. We are a day nursery and are open 51 weeks a year but we don't currently offer the "stretched" option where parents can use fewer funded hours per week but over the whole year rather than only during term time. There are lots of implications and considerations but I wanted to know if anyone else is "stretching" and offering funding all year round? If you do, what do you find are the pros and cons? Sue here....just for ease here is a link to the guidance if you haven't seen it
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2 year olds in Pre-school
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I would welcome some thoughts on the number of 2 year olds you consider reasonable in a session where the maximum number of children attending is 24. I have colleagues who never take more than 4 2-year-olds in a group this size. Our admissions officer has places to fill on a Monday morning, but we only have 2 year olds on the waiting list. If we admit these children we will have 10 children under the age of 36 months and 14 over 36 months and I worry how we will cater for the needs of the youngest children. We only have one large room at our preschool so it is difficult to section areas off to accommodate different age ranges. We have 5 members of staff who work …
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I'm not sure if I am looking for advice or just need to rant. Deep breath here goes. I am leader of a small pre-school and we have arranged for training over the first two inset days of term. The first day is more a meeting type thing whereby the staff are able to bring their children and is for 3 hours. The second day is a team (note the word team) building exercise where their children are not allowed to attend. This was originally going to be 6 hours but when they complained we cut it down to 3. The staff were given these dates and the agendas back in June. Fast forward to now and I have started to receive texts to say that the staff can't come as they can…
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Graduate Leader Job Description
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Does anyone have a job description for a graduate leader? I was thinking of using my room leader one?
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Hi all, Found this great flow chart to help explain attachment theory to new staff. Thought others may find it useful Attachment theory.doc
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HI, Just wanted to share. I have been adding to our dressing up and was not keen to pay £15-25 per item for our multicultural dressing up items. I looked on ebay for children's sari's and got one for £7! Followed the related search and got a whole range of items from around the world very cheap. I googled the proper names for things and found more. Apologies if this is already what everyone else does but I am feeling very pleased with myself!
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Volunteers/ Students
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I'm wondering if the information i give to volunteers/students is too much as i treat it like a staff induction? What does everyone else do and what paperwork do you share/retain on file. The amount of students and volunteers we have asking to come it just seems i'm forever putting together info packs/inductions!!
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Hi all We have been looking for a new qualified member of staff for 1 session a week, and this is proving to be very difficult- no one has replied! One of our lovely parents has offered to work this session (unqualified) and she has helped us before on a voluntary basis. I have said yes and agreed to pay her and put her on a temporary contract for 3 months, hopefully we will find a qualified member of staff before then! She is happy for this and said she will help wherever she can. I have agreed to pay her for the hours worked and give a contract as I feel people are often more committed when they are being paid. I will be doing an induction pack and talki…
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Hi All I'm in the process of reviewing and updating our policies. There are only a few that need to have anything changed in them. How do you show that you have reviewed yours? Do you reprint them all? I was thinking of just resigning and dating the current policies to show I have reviewed them and just reprinting the ones I have changed? What do you think :1b
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hello does anyone have a template for a child requiring a risk assessment We have a child who runs and hides and also displays very physical behaviour thanks
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