Early Years Setting Management
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Thank You
by Guest- 2 replies
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Would just like to Thank everyone who have posted to myself and Tracey with emails concerning our campaign regarding many aspects to our frustrated Early Years profession, which OUR FILE will be past to my MP very soon .............. and will keep everyone posted! and BIG THANKS to Tracey for getting the ball rolling.............fantastic motor skills, cognitive development, great sharing and taking turns skills, fantastic 'language' development !!!??.......... Julia x
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have just recieved reply from my MP who recieved a reply from the department of Education and skills reguarding qualifications pre 1989. It says Quote: For earlier qualifications before 1989 my officails have agreed with the sector and Ofsted that providing there has been no large career gaps since the origional award has been obtained and the individuals concerned have kept up to date with developments in the key issue areas of child protection, health & safty, ELGs and SEN, qualifications should still be accepted. In all other cases, individuals are advised to contact early years national Training organisation or skillsActive (playwork) as appropriate w…
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Please Help Mp Visiting
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I will be meeting with my MP Mr Andrew Hunter who will be visiting my Kindergarten..... please please please can you all email here with all your concerns and questions? then i will print off and give them to him and ask for feedback on all........... as he will be taking these to the House of Commons!!! to share with others!!! and perhaps we then can get some concrete advice!! or even answers!! Many thanks Hotgoss for giving me the push to do something about all our concerns with our Early Years profession julia --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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hi there is anyone in pre school settings enroled with a union. Im talking staff, committee, chair etc If so which one???? Do you think it is a good idea????
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Bank Staff Scheme
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Hello all, We are currently thinking about the possibility of a bank staff scheme, this would give providers the ability to access staff at short notice or for short periods of time to cover illness/holidays or increased take up of places without going through the full recruitment process. Is anybody aware of any LA's around the country operating or piloting a bank staff scheme, that I could talk to?
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Triplets
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Hi! I would love to hear anyone's experiences of triplets in a pre-school setting. We have just had 2 yr 8 month old non-identical triplets register. We've had twins before but never triplets!
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Fax Your Mp
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Has anyone heard anything from their MP or secretary of state education. To be honest I'm getting disheartened as the majority of replies I'm getting from playgroups , nurseries etc are all saying they treat their NNEBs as level 3 already and hold them in very high regard. What is wrong with mine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hello all, I am currently in the process of choosing some Nursery Management software to replace the very time-consuming manual processes we are now using. I'm finding it difficult to choose between the various products on the market and wondered whether anyone here has had experience of one or more of them and can provide me with some pointers or recommendations. Thanks for your help! Tom
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Having just waved bye to 4 children moving on to school I have once again faced the dilemma of exactly what records to copy and retain. You may have heard that at a future date we can be sued for not picking up a child's special needs, I think even when that child is 21 years old! I know this is a huge subject - we are all aware that special needs might not manifest themselves in a child until they are older or cannot be picked up until a later stage of development (eg dyxlexia). I would love to hear what records you copy and retain (with parental permission of course!). Does the liability remain with the practitioner or the setting? I imagine that in 21 years I will…
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Foundation Stage Induction
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I was sent a PM by a member re the following "Help! I have been asked to deveop a Foundation Stage induction programme for children and parents. I have had lots of ideas but am sure I have forgotten something totally obvious!" Any ideas???
