To think that Ofsted will slaughter us?

[Kyrptonite]

Last ofsted was good. This time is possibly going to be awful.

I work in the 2 year old area. There's 4 of us with one who is the 'co-ordinator'. She begged for this role, threatened to quit if she didn't get it etc.

Last October we had to do our reviews. She went off sick for 4 weeks, no reviews were done and folders had very little observations in them. Review time again and she's been off for 2 weeks. No observations in some files and what is in there is not referenced to EYFS, no punctuation, no capitalisation of childrens names and names spelt incorrectly.

I've just picked up the bulk of the folders as the co-ordination and another member of our group have been off for a fortnight. The spelling is awful, the font is massive seemingly to make up for a lack of actual info in them and it just looks awful.

I'm tempted to go through and rewrite everything with references and grammar. This may however make me look petty! Last week I did 8 observations a day so there were actually some in the files. Now I'm doing 15 reviews when I only have 5 key children and no doubt co-ordinator will breeze back into work without anyone saying anything. She also took home our planning folder so I've been winging it for 2 weeks

Rant possibly over!

It's parents evening next week. These parents are going to be wondering what sort of setting their children are in aren't they?

As far as I know there have been several phone calls and texts sent to her but none have been answered. From what I have heard it will be a competence issue when she comes back (or if) and she will face a disciplinary. There is a letter going out to her on Friday if she hasn't returned or got in touch saying she's being suspended.

4 weeks of not turning up to a job is not acceptable. She is also not doing the job she was paid to do.

Sure, I understand that. As long as correct procedures are being followed by mil and you're covering your own backside with regard to not getting landed with the blame for what's gone on before.

4 weeks of no contact is job abandonment. I think my firm give you three weeks then send out a letter essentially saying contract has been terminated due to job abandonment.

insancerre I didn't say that I believe that children only need cuddles.
I believe that children need lots of outdoor activities; lots of opportunities to talk, listen and be listened to; lots of sharing; good, wholesome food. A nursery setting needs a good manager, and needs to be organised well, with employees who have an ability to communicate and empathise with little children.

Degree level qualifications are not necessary for this. All those meaningless observations and files on children are largely superfluous.

Because of the written skills now deemed necessary, we are denying some people the job that they're most suited to do.