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  1. AnonyMouse_7120
    I’m not sure yet, a quick we may be opening June got a thumbs up from all, I plan to speak to them all later this week to discuss my tentative plans with them, speak to them about some staying furloughed and some returning now I have an idea of numbers and asking them to send me their thoughts individually....though I’m also thinking we will do all this stressing and planning and it won’t actually happen, there seems to be a lot of opposition to it mounting and I think the extended unchanged furlough to August will also cause more reluctance for settings to open, a couple of local primary schools have announced today they will not open before September.
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    Hi and welcome, I’ve seen a number of the big chain nurseries are calling for this, personally my school leavers are more than ready on the whole, most have siblings in school already and we are on the school site so they are familiar with the school, the couple who will find it harder would have still found it hard under normal circumstances, but this will be very different for others I know, If we had to hold them back it would also cause problems with room for new intake and increasing sessions for the remainders come September, maybe a half a term would be ok 🤔
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    I’m also asking them to choose only one setting.
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    I’m going to email insurance so I have a written response. my other reasoning for sticking to less staff is that I could easily adapt storage units to hold a selection of resources only used by each group, that member of staff would be responsible for cleaning it, they could have a designated floor mat (with the rest removed), and if someone needs to go off (also need to revisit the 7 or 14 days but it is in one of the docs I read yesterday) I would have a fresh person to cover that absence. but with best laid plans and all that it will either turn out the ‘R’ number rises due to extra freedom and we won’t open or a couple of weeks in other parents will change their minds and screw all your group plans up 😭
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    Honest letter to parents, but as it doesn’t say I presume the school is opening anyway? I’ve seen a petition to get this stopped for the youngest chn, it already had a lot of signatures. I emailed parents yesterday, gave them a list of questions we still wanted answers too and asked who would want their child to return on the 1st June if possible, from approx 40 we have 15 def not (even working parents), a couple if it’s safe 🤷‍♀️, 9 would if possible (non-working parent at home) and rest waiting for a reply, interesting not as many going to school as I thought, though we have a high number this year with a sibling already at school so the decision was based largely on whether that sibling was in a school class re-opening or not. It’s now working out if it’s worth bringing back 7 staff on a rota or keeping it to the least staff possible to minimise exposure (how fair will they see that?) ideally from a financial angle also I’d keep part time staff (all have chn) furloughed to the % possible, and the 3 full time staff with a ‘select’ group of children they stay with for whichever sessions they attend all week, though I think the furloughed would need to drop to 80% pay so the working staff received more ...and then what would they think about that? 🤯 Has anyone contacted their insurance company yet?
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    that was my thinking until I read the danish article on how they're doing it and one of the pics is a group of children in what they call 'the sandbox' ?
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    I’ve just told my committee this a biggy we need to get confirmed, I did read someone had asked the question and the response was ‘it could never be proved how/where someone contracted it’ ...ummm! Must paint faster FM 😝 I need to crack on with all the things I’ve been dragging my heals over like policy rewriting and turning my scribbled thoughts on re-opening into a plan anyone else might be able to make sense of, first though is finding out from parents who would need child care and who would actually want it if they could, one parent has already confirmed this morning that their child won’t be back until the R rate is much lower. I’m not sure about PPE either, I don’t see masks really working in our settings but I guess it will be staff choice, as said will we even be able to get them? (Consortium have no gloves or aprons). I was surprised mask wearing in public places wasn’t addressed last night ....or maybe I’m not.
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    Hi and welcome, if you go to the control panel>settings> assessments, under configurations you can choose what parents see from there for the different types of assessments :-)
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    I think it is more a case of it’s presumed we are all already open as well, I think it’s about finding out how many extra chn will need/want to come above key worker children and we need clarification on who can/can’t come back, I’ve had a parent already confirm their child will be back as another is in an accepted school year even though the parent always works from home ??? and then others won’t want to send them regardless and as you say anju if it’s a parental choice to keep them home can we keep the funding (Surely our counties can’t penalize us for that ...or can they?) If only it was as simple as ‘if you can’t work from home go back to work’, the construction and manufacturing businesses can’t just pick up where they left off, apart from not fitting people into the same space they did before I know the small independent builders are struggling to get materials for a start, plaster is the new hand gel and there is a huge backlog on orders, I can’t imagine manufacturers will be able to get the parts they need that readily either :’(
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    Enjoy your Birthday Cait 🎂 💐 🍷
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    Hi, I suppose if we did get the go ahead for June opening funding is already confirmed as being retained for the Summer term if parents decide that’s too soon, but I’m also concerned if parents are still nervous come the Autumn term as to whether we will still be funded if parents choose not to send chn who would have been coming (presuming we are even open then; 🤷‍♀️
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    4. Matt Hancock
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    9.Norman Lamont
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    https://famly.co/blog/covid-19/denmark-reopening-child-care-corona/?utm_source=facebook_groups I’ve just been reading this, released today on how Denmark are doing it and it seems they’re breaking down into smaller 1 adult managed groups. I’m not seeing why so much emphasis is putting on testing either fm, you could be clear one minute and not a few minutes later 🤷‍♀️
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    I couldn’t make Narnia fit 1 until ‘chronicles’ was added.
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    2 - hogwarts?
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    I concur ....I can’t get past Narnia ...and can’t fit that with the clues, Middle earth maybe for 4?
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    I think the big announcement might have moved to Sunday now instead of Thurs ...guess the planning isn’t going too well 🤔
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    Maybe something parents sign to say ‘by allowing my child to return to setting I understand that whilst you will take appropriate hygiene precautions, social distancing for adults and restricting visitors from entering the setting to limit the spread of infection I also understand there is not a hope in hell that you will be able to socially distance my child from their peers or staff managing their personal needs’ :-D
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    We use individual bought pots for dough disco type activities (so adult led anyway) rather than general use handmade playdough, I’m thinking about rotating washable resources daily, maybe 2/3 options tubs one day while others are back in sterilizing fluid to alternate ...but who knows, so many ‘what abouts’, all we can do is our best to minimize the spread of infection much like we had stepped up to more frequent no other adults in, hand washing, high contact washing down, more steaming 🤷‍♀️ We have a big outside area so it will be spread out mostly I think, I’m really hoping my staff don’t want to go dine the mask route unless we are told we have too.
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    That’s going to be tricky and what about mud kitchens? I guess that’s a no too. my plan for water play would be individual bowls of soapy water (if no eczema) ...do you think that would be ok? And I guess they could have their own pots of playdough?
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    No idea how it will all work and to be honest with you’ve I’ve not given it too much thought (I’m just better focused and far more productive with a deadline to work too) I have been wondering if allocating each member of staff a set of chn they stay with as a group through the day and move around areas might help minimize the risk of infection, instead of 4 staff and 20 odd chn all mixing up, 1 member of staff would stay it’s a group of ratio’s chn, I know there will be the logistics of that to work out ...eg nappy change, lunch time etc so just something I’m playing with at the moment. If we get notice to open from next weeks announcement I will send a questionnaire to parents to see how many would want to send them back ASAP and arrange a virtual meeting with staff to find out how they feel about it ...so maybe I’ve given it a little more thought than I realized 😉
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    I had a compost delivery but nothing to grow in it really, sweet peas from seeds already potted and I’ve sown an orange pip, tomato and pepper seeds 😆
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    Good work Panders 🏆
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    Here’s clues or done: 1 s.s ✅ - all female (if you haven’t got it yet) 2. ✅ wd panders 3. Colorful characters 4. Panel 5. Cast in stone
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