Early Years Setting Management
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Hi all - Those lovable rogues (!) are at it again. Just a quick reminder that if you get any forms in the post implying that you need to register/notify under the Data Protection Act (and more importantly send a cheque off for varying amounts!) you should ignore the semi-official looking forms and either bin them or give them to your children to paint all over. Here's the link to the information commissioners page which tells you that all these people are despicable parasites. The list of known organisations trying the scam on is long, but not comprehensive as they continually move addresses and change the name of their organisation. So if yours isn't listed just…
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Hi Everyone Can anyone pls tell me what the going rate/salary is for a Nursery manager/nurses/cook in London for a nursery of approx. 26 lovely children . cheers all
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Any Ideas For Name?
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At nursery we take children from 4 months to 5 years. We have the seperate age ranges, babies (0-18months) toddlers (18months-3 years) then the '3-5s' which used to be called 'preschool' but we decided to change this. I don't like 'pre-school'- sounds just like we're 'preparing' them. Thing is 3-5s sounds a bit strange. Does anyone have any ideas for what to call this age range? I thought about the babies being acorns, the toddlers seedlings, the pre-school oaktrees but this is a bit twee maybe! Any ideas welcome! It is a big nursery and we have many rooms, which we call blue room orange room etc but i was also thinking of new names for these but am a bit stuck!
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Nneb A Reply What Do You Think ?
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I have just received a letter from the department for education and skills which ends with 'we are aware of the conflicting advice and confusion in the sector regarding pre - 1989 qualifications and will shortly clarify our advice to the sector that anyone who has completed their qualification over 15 years ago can still be regarded as qualified at level 3 ' I find it hard to believe that my campaign could be drawing to an end and am just waiting for the but ....................... What does anyone else make of this ? Should I be getting excited
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I Need Some Tlc 1 2
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Just got to get this off my chest. I am soooooooooooooooooooooooo fed up with this NNEB situation. I am getting so much support which is absolutely brilliant but the majority of the replies I get say they treat their old NNEBS as level 3 and hold them in very high regard. Why oh why am I having all this trouble. Last year I was told I was only worth a level 1 and that I should do the IPP and the more I think about it the more my blood starts to boil. I am good at my job and I do know what I'm doing why can't I get the recognition !!!! Lots of other old NNEBS are , what is wrong with mine ???? One lady said they treat the NNEB as a gold qualification. At my place o…
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Does anyone know if it is required by ofsted to have a deputy in a preschool. I thought it would be as someone is needed to fill in if the supervisor is unavailabe. Just wondered what everyone else thought or had in their setting. Thanks, Abijac.
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Cant Believe It!
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:wacko: Well girls have seen it all....................... Just had wonderful 4 days in Germany visiting friends who live near Paderborn............... again visited another Kindergarten............. how wonderful to see many children playing from the ages of 3 to 6......... i know 6 years of age PLAYING.......with 3, 4 and 5 year olds!!!!!!!!!! Speaking to the manager she couldnt believe the struggle we all have with the paperwork and planning her question is WHY? soooo much... her words also was that "We as adults do not have this to plan our lifes growing up, our children, homes etc this is not good if we plan our lifes it goes kaputt" When i told her the t…
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Hi there! I am due to start my NQT in Sept in a nursery in a school! I am looking forward to it and went in today to meet the staff and to see the routine of the nursery this year! I also meet the nursery nurse who will be with me full time! A very nice lady, but Im a little bit worried about the fact that for 8 years she set up, ran and was head teacher for a nursery- she has now decided to do her degree (which she is doing now) get experience in a state school and to do her PGCE when finished her degree! She was very nice with great ideas, but part of her came across as very dominant and I ve done this I can do that! How can I approach it tactfully in sept that I am the…
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Help!
by Guest AllyB- 10 replies
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I am having difficulties with a little boy who constantly behaves in a unappropriate manner. He runs into the other children full force, shouts and screams at the top of his voice, hits the other children with anything he can get his hands on, he jumps on the tables and chairs, chucks his food around at dinnertime and this is on a good day! I have tried to work with him using a smiley chart but after two months this has made no difference and when he does something wrong he says he doesn't care if he gets all sad faces in his chart! His mum and grandma have been really good and have said that they will not get him special treats unless he gets more happy faces than sad…
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Picking Up Late!
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What do settings do when a parent/carer constantly picks a child up late? We have one child who is with us two days a week, finishing at 12.00 one day and 12.30 on the other. We finish our extended session at 12.30. This child is collected late virtually every day, at almost 12.15 on Mondays and 12.35 and sometimes 12.40 on Fridays. I understand that parents/carers get waylaid or stuck in traffic whatever on occasions and we are very tolerant of this. But this is almost all the time and we know that the parent is abusing the fact that we are there until 12.30 on Mondays and just being downright cheeky on Fridays. Do settings have a policy about charging for late pick up…
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