aibu in thinking I could do this in the summer holidays

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Hello everyone, first time poster but long time lurker.

I'm a 26 year old primary school teacher, living in the SE, with 4 years experience teaching age 7 to 11 incl children with SEN. I've recently bought a house on my own and I'm finding that my salary doesn't go very far anymore so am looking to earn some extra money. I have been considering getting a job in the 6 weeks holiday and potentially school holidays after that. I love children and i am ideally looking for childcare/nanny type job. I'd happilly look after 5 kids. What I'm here to ask you though is would I be an attractive employee....

I'm thinking about posting an ad stating the above and offering child care/nanny/doing homework or reading with children for any number of days in the 6 weeks I'm off. However, this is where I feel I may be unreasonable. ..to make it really worth my while I'd want at least £10 per hour. ...ideally more like £12 and to work for a minimum of 4 hours in one go.

With no children myself, I have no idea how much childcare costs and how working parents go about finding it. Does this sound viable to you? And how would I go about finding work. Thanks in advance

you can't do this, i have read many threads and teachers don't have a spare min in the holidays to do anything but lesson prep.

Where is the se are u? I'm a nanny on the south coast, I get £10.50 gross for a family of three but am (now) experienced. If I were you I wouldn't take on more than three kids tbh, nannying and teaching are not the same, you'll have to manage varying ages, take them out, keep all interested, etc. You'll probably have to go self employed for only holiday work.

Call around local agencies and check out sites with nanny jobs for an idea of wage, but don't expect a huge premium because you are a teacher, there are many people trying to find work at the moment and even fully qualified nannies with lots of experience are having to take lower wages.

Come into the childcare part of the forum, lots of people who know a lot there :)

You, not u. Not sure why my pad keeps changing it to u, I never use u

I think families with 3+ children would snatch your hand off.

..although it may be that the school would not allow your to do it for children at your school.

For your first job btw. I wouldn't take more than three this summer. See how you like it this summer and how it works for you and go from there. If three kids world okay, try four of you get offered a job with four and see how that goes.