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How fast do these weekends go, is it ever going to stop raining sad hope your 2nd half term goes well louby 🤞

🎈 🎂 🥂 Happy 21st Year FSF ….cake sounds good 👍

Or the ones who had the extra HP being asked for it back 🤦‍♀️

It’s been confusing all along, I was going on the sentence that said it will be a reduction in holiday pay 🤷‍♀️

I’m surprised more hasn’t been made of this, we also had the same email from EYA, it’s reads to me that as we use them for payroll our holiday pay will automatically revert to what it was before we went to 5.6 weeks from Sept, I’m going to speak to our committee about letting staff keep a week of pro-rata hours to use as time off provided it can be covered (not easy as things are with staffing).

The whole debacle of term time staff having the same 5.6 wks has been overturned and we are back to what equates to that 12.7%/4.3 weeks, EYA payroll sent an email about the change a couple of weeks ago , to be fair it didn’t seem right to have the same paid holiday as an all year round worker (though as all managers of a term time setting know it isn’t really paid holiday, it’s pay for working the holidays). We have a really early have term in our county -12th to 16th, maybe you have the 5 wk next half term when we’ll have a 6?

I get that more people need to train and believe dropping the need for all to have maths (rightly or wrongly) should entice school leavers back into training, but what about keeping the experienced staff in Early Years, they are leaving on mass, mainly to become assessors if Fb is anything to go on ….who the hell will be left to assess 🤣 only a week to half term ….. I love that holidays were created to get the work done you can’t do in your employed weeks …and now we have to to give one of them back 😞 have a good weekend all

Good news Louby, my recruiting isn’t going so well and now looking like the deputy wants out 😭

Thanks all, much better today, it’s ramping up here too and chn are coming when parents have it as no reason not to anymore and with no vaccine boosters now I guess there’s no avoiding it.

Lovely news zigzag 💍 a Covid kind of weekend here 🙄 probably expected as we’ve had a couple of chn in this week who’s parents have it, feels like it’s giving up the fight today though 🤞 hope no one is affected by storm Isha 💨 🌧

Hi Sloppy and welcome to the forum. I have been committee managed for 30+ years, I would start with a conversation with the manager and ask how they see your role in relation to theirs, my committees have been more about fundraising and making fee/wage decisions, but I know some committees are much more pro-active and deal with finances (or have an admin), do staff supervisions and appraisals (I expect the chair to sit in with annual appraisals), personally I’d like to be asked now and again if everything is ok. I make sure my chair knows the safer recruitment procedures as they are the employer, who is responsible for what roles in the staff team, make sure they have a copy (or link) to the statutory framework, maybe ask the manager to take you on the learning walk as they would for an inspection, it will give you an insight into how and why things are done as they are, spending some time in the setting will give you an idea of the challenges staff are facing. As Cait says EYA (if members) have lots of info and you’re LA will likely officer training. Good Luck and we’ll done for taking on the role.

Hi All that’s week one down….roll on half term or at least a snow day (though not looking likely here) 😜 good to read about the positives of the week and sorry for the lows, hope your daughter at least got her things back louby 🤞

Good to hear everyone is having a good Xmas period 😊 Loved the magnet chess too, bought for a 7 yr old but the 2 yr old, obviously totally missing the point thought it was hilarious when the stones jumped together ….I was a little sorry they took it home 🤣 I wish you all a happy and healthy 2024 🥂

Have a a good festive period everyone and Best Wishes for 2024 🎄 🔔 🎅🏻 good news Gezabel!

Hang on in there, you’re almost done ….one more sleep 💤