Tuesday Staff Room.

spamming the boards, I have reported a good half dozen from today

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Thanks shoshe, will look later.

thanks bradford mum

Mo, oh yeah - the holiday. Hmmm. Well, I can't go on any planes anyway, so you may as well swan off and enjoy yourself. All free like. Well done, hope you enjoy yourself!

bumcleaner, that is so awful! What is her problem?!

I have my thoughts on who did it, but not any proof. Feel like I want to go slap her though, would make me feel better even if it wasn't her lol.

dmo, that's outrageous!! I think she needs bringing down a peg or 2! I feel sorry for the parents having to deal with this. Choosing a childminder can be daunting, and this is the sort of thing that gives childminders a bad name.

I hope it can be resolved soon.
Sally

Oh charming thebumcleaner! Any idea who it could have been?

Knackered, Just had my first full day with my new baby mindee and am shattered, however am so surprised at how fantastically my own 18month old ds coped with it all.
Baby mindee is comeing again on Thursday, am praying for good weather!

AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH Just had a visit from Ofsted from 2 inspectors as someone has reported me for being over numbers.

Apart from the 3 in the cupboard (joke) you mean??? Why do people phone up and report things that are a LIE? They didn't even give a name, so why did they even bother coming out for that?

Wouldn't mind, but all it has done is pee me off. Grrrr last thing you need.

..dont care

Afternoon ladies!

DMO, that's not good is it? So, this CM is saying, I'm giving you notice, you have to pay for it, but I don't want your lo to come during that notice period? She can't do that, can she? Poor parents. I don't know what to say really. Maybe they can work something out, so that they only ever need the 2 days and can stick with you.

Glad everyone has had an OK day. Mine was nice too, I've been with Yr 11's all day. Mostly quiet and really rather nice to be at work. This week is flying, its nearly Wednesday already! Been to get my currency after school. Did I mention I was going on holiday this weekend?

dmo she CANT give notice and tell them not to come.tell them to cotact ncma(if she has contract with them) otherwise tell them to ring her and say they will not pay for refusal of care with no good reason..can you not get a variation? or would it be too much?

Dmo, blardy heck huh?? She can't actually give notice surely and not let the baby come? She sounds crazy to be honest! What can you do, they asked YOU it's not as if you were hunting them down.

Thanks rose,will try them. Does anybody have any educational websites that they use for resourses?

Blooming EYFS, what ever happened to home based care

I went to a network meeting recently where EYFS was discussed (what else?). Was extremely shocked to hear that Ofsted were thinking about reducing the frequency of inspections to between every 3 to 6 years if you got a good or outstanding in your last inspection. Now, I know that a lot of us hate inspections but this time gap will not do us any favours as a proffesion.

big story so bear with me hope someone can help!
2 mths ago a lovely couple contacted me to have their baby but they needed 3 days i only had 2 days so said i would ask around for them.
finally found a new cm and passed the number on they went to visit and phoned back very pleased and said she was lovely and thanks very much for finding her (etc etc)
anyway last wed the dad phoned to ask a couple of questions

1. how much would you charge for 3 days
2. how much do you charge in hols (baby is term time only) so i told him i charge by the hour so i would add up how many hrs they did in the 3 days and charge them that and in the hols its 1/4 fees to keep the place. fine thanks he said and that was that. thursday he rang back to talk again saying the cm had now changed her mind from when they first started and would be charging them for 5 days as she couldnt just fill 2 days and in the hols they would have to pay in full for 5 days but the baby couldnt go i told dad to ask the cm to ring me cm rings on thursday 6pm and said its none of my business and what was i doing talking to her parents. i explained they needed advice and as they had got to know me they had phoned me, i told her that it was her business she is self employed to could charge what she wanted but that the parents didnt understand why they had to pay all that money if the baby couldnt go in the hols. anyway she got nasty a bit to me saying i was trying to steal business from her until i pointed out that i didnt have the days they needed and i gave the business to her. i then had to go out to a school thing and came home at 9pm to an answer message from the dad wanted to speak to me again. so phoned dad back he was very upset the cm and phoned him back and gave them 4wks notice said she wanted paying in full but that baby should not come in the notice period and put the phone down on him.

baby is nearly 6mths old this is their first child i felt so sorry for them but also guilty so i offered to have the child for them on mon/tues until they get sorted

i'm being a good c/m and we're doing maps to compliment all the blardy walking we do in the fresh air ala EYFS

grrrrr . . . . i'm soaked!

maybe DTLK henni?

Afternoon, tis a bit grey now but no rain as yet.

Katy, i would go for small and homely myself.

Does anybody know where I can download pictures of musical instruments to colour and cut out? I'm being a good C/M as mindees are doing about musical instruments at school nursery, I'm "complimenting" the topic at home ala "EYFS"