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I'm back Tuesday, children Wednesday but I shall be doing a 'normal' school day tomorrow just at home rather than at school.  Today I've been doing the cleaning, laundry, food shopping etc so I can start the term with a clean slate.  I've done a little bit of crochet and will later sink into a bubble bath!  Yesterday I got back from a lovely few days with my sister and some Aunty Froglet time with my niblings.  I had a couple of texts from my sister's phone to read on arrival - one said that the youngest tadpole (6) had just come downstairs from bed because she couldn't stop thinking about Aunty Froglet and then second was a message from her saying: "Dear Aunty Froglet, I love you.  You make me happy.  Love from Tadpole."  So sweet (although I'm not sure about being used as an excuse for getting out of bed! ;):ph34r:

As always, I'm going to make a few resolutions for the school year ahead - mostly revolving around staying on top of the TDL and not letting work overtake all other things.  I'm hoping that my new found crochet bug will help with that although I suspect that it may hinder the staying on top of the TDL part of that resolution!

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7 hours ago, Panders said:

good luck zigzag, don't think some of ours are back until next week.  Does your funding start tomorrow?

Yes our funding begins tomorrow.  I have had a bit of a reshuffle with our term dates to fit the funded weeks in appropriately, so will be slightly different from the schools dates.  But all cleared with the Funding team!

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25 minutes ago, zigzag said:

Yes our funding begins tomorrow.  I have had a bit of a reshuffle with our term dates to fit the funded weeks in appropriately, so will be slightly different from the schools dates.  But all cleared with the Funding team!

When do finish for Christmas ? we finish 14th 

Also what are you weeks for the spring term our is 11 and it's really messing us up >:(   (I'm have a bit a deja vu as I think I've asked you this before :/xDxD)

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21 minutes ago, louby loo said:

When do finish for Christmas ? we finish 14th 

Also what are you weeks for the spring term our is 11 and it's really messing us up >:(   (I'm have a bit a deja vu as I think I've asked you this before :/xDxD)

:o You used the 'C word' 

But the answer is......17th December

Spring terms gave me a real headache too - we ended up with 7th January - 15th February, 25th February - 2nd April 

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26 minutes ago, Mouseketeer said:

I’m not back until 10th, is anyone else then? We’ll finish with school on the 21st.

We are 11 wks funded for Spring but will run a 12 wk, the extra weeks funding will be added onto the summer terms (I checked with county as I couldn’t make the weeks fit, I also think this happened 2 or 3 yrs ago).

I think I'm going to ask if we can do this. I also think it's actually the first time our LA has enabled us to run our spring funding into April. Our dates are 11 weeks between 3rd Jan - 5th April.

Toying with the idea of a three week Easter break- but really I'd prefer to finish a week early in Summer if possibly.  Not helped by one of the Academy's near us finishing 12th July so a couple of staff would love an early deal holiday wise (fully understand that). 

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1 minute ago, louby loo said:

Well-

Autumn   14wk

Spring.     11wk

Summer   12 wk

Which all add's up to 37 weeks!  Obviously they work their 38 weeks April- March, but I can't help thinking someone somewhere along the line (possibly a high finance working parent!) is going to work out this anomaly and cause issues. :/        

 

As far as I know that's completely fine just as long as parents are made aware of number of weeks 

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2 hours ago, louby loo said:

Well-

Autumn   14wk

Spring.     11wk

Summer   12 wk

Which all add's up to 37 weeks!  Obviously they work their 38 weeks April- March, but I can't help thinking someone somewhere along the line (possibly a high finance working parent!) is going to work out this anomaly and cause issues. :/        

 

Ours always works out to 38wks school yr, county carry over a wk if spring to start of new financial, (we will open 12 spring and get pd 13 in summer) but our financial yr swings between 37 & 39wks, it’s a right headache 🤕 

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1 hour ago, Mouseketeer said:

Could you make me some please ....I hate making play dough 😞 

Oh that's music to my ears - so do I - thought it was just me!:D

Play-dough made, have been up to my setting to set up for tomorrow, have emailed reminder to parents 'what to bring to preschool', emailed plan to staff...…..

I am, actually, really looking forward to getting back into the swing of things - but I'm having the usual little wobble re 'do I remember how to do it':ph34r:xD

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Great first day back, so quiet though!  All so happy to bound back through the door and the newbie settled really well.

I have just discovered the no cook playdough recipe and do not know why I have been using the cooked recipe all these years!  The no cook is so easy, lovely smooth dough and the kids can get involved in making it as well (under supervision)

Have a great day back tomorrow.

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good to hear to went well zigzag - yes when you have fewer numbers I think it's hard there's a buzz you have to try and replace.   The no-cook recipe was fabulous, I had done the whole cooked stuff for years, I had messed up a no-cook version and was put off, however, I eventually found one I was  happy with and never looked back and, as you say, the children can help with it too.

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ok so where did the summer go????O.o:o

Back to work today, children back tomorrow. Very quiet to start with not sure whether to be pleased or worried.

Anyway i'm sure we'll pick up quickly though suspect we'll have a young year group

Ive tried really hard to destress over the holidays and not think about work too much so feeling fairly chirpy about going back!

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