If you work in a nursery..

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.... how does your setting deal with staff morale / promote good staff morale ?

Nurseries usually keep staff morale up by recognizing good work, offering training, keeping communication open, and having team activities or events.

Mine doesn’t, they are terrible. They even pretend they’ve treated staff by posting online pictures of sweets or pizza that staff have just bought for each other and say “treating our staff”. At Christmas we get a mug from B+M bargains every year. Keep in mind the nursery charges £60 a day and all the owners children attend private school and go to Disneyworld every year. I’’ve worked there 11 years and despite the owner being my SIL, they’re refusing to make a space for my baby so I may have to leave before I return from maternity.

I do employee of the month. A paid for Christmas party, a day off paid for their birthday, cake and vouchers for their birthdays, a cash gift at Christmas and every time a parent emails a compliment or praises a member of staff it gets passed onto them with a small thank you note from me.

I listen to them and I'm as flexible as I cam be with family commitments such as first days at school etc. I offer flexible working and understand that full time staff can't attend medical appts outside of working hours.

Likewise the staff are loyal, long term and also reciprocate with overtime and covering shifts if needed.

I pay well and I don't hassle them on annual leave or sick leave

I also pitch in and don't expect them to do anything I wouldn't.

We've all started at the bottom and could all end up back there one day.

Sorry ignore this

Are you currently hiring haha 😝 But seriously, if only more employers or managers were like you! It baffles me how we’re just expected to have a “positive attitude” just because we’re getting paid but we all know the wage doesn’t match the work. Little things like what you’ve described would make a big difference.
My husband was expected to attend an unpaid meeting at one of the owners houses (not even the workplace) during his paternity leave!

it’s twenty years since i left nursery nursing. I worked for two nurseries . We got nothing from employers, we had to ask for a pay rise( no minimum wage then) and then not tell anyone if they gave us one. We got no christmas/birthday recognition. No gifts. No thank yous. We worked xmas bar bank hols.Staff meetings were after work unpaid. Did employee of the month for £10. It didn’t boost moral. four weeks holiday that never increased, no sick pay….but grief if you dared to ring in sick.

Cant imagine why i quit that career!