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TEACHERS who are mummys

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tryingtobemarrypoppins2 · 26/06/2010 22:42

What did you do when your child/children started school? How did you get them there and pick them up? Did you consider your own school?

I currently teach 3 days about 15miles from home using family for 1 day and a nursery for 2 days. We can work from home for PPA every other half term for an afternoon.

Many thanks

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gigglewitch · 26/06/2010 22:44

Grannies... my parents or my dh (who works shifts) drop them all off in the morning, MIL picks them up most days but I'm home soon after 4 these days

FolornHope · 26/06/2010 22:46

i get my dad in the days i work ( and i start super early but very local)
i would ( if i were you ) get a mate who you pay to pick them up after school

smugmumofboys · 26/06/2010 22:48

I pay for before and after school club like most other folks at the boys' school.

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Hulababy · 26/06/2010 22:50

I was a teacher but before DD started school I moved out of school teaching and into prison ed. It paid slightly less, but still paid into my pension, etc. and was much more flexible hours wise and I still got 12 weeks holiday. But it was quite a long drive so I gave it up and now work PT as a TA locally. Pays not very much at all but gives me the flexibility I needed. DH takes DD to school and I collect, and I can cover most holidays.

littlebrownmouse · 26/06/2010 22:51

My kids go to the school I work at. It is all so easy, school has had many children of its teachers as pupils if you see what I mean, so are used to the situation. They come to work with me, go to breakfast club and after school wander down to my classroom then hang about with kids of other staff members/do homework/go on computers etc until I'm ready to go home. I couldn't possibly omagine doing it any other way, I never miss class assemblies, concerts or (unfortunately!) sports day and am there if needed. Its all so easy.

janeite · 26/06/2010 22:53

Dp was a stay at home dad.

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tryingtobemarrypoppins2 · 26/06/2010 22:59

littlebrownmouse - are you a bigger school? I assume your also F/T?? I would go back FT if both my children got into my school but thats a big gamble as we are always full! I bet my oldest would get in and then my youngest wouldn't!!

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Lucycat · 26/06/2010 23:03

get a fab childminder if you can. I drop the dds off at 7.45am and she walks them to school, then picks up for me and feeds them toats until I get there.

Dominique07 · 26/06/2010 23:03

littlebrownmouse - that is the dream scenario!!! fingers crossed...

littlebrownmouse · 26/06/2010 23:07

Small Catholic school. We are not Catholics but when DS started the school was not full, by the time DD started we were nearly full and I had a letter from our minister ready to give in with admission forms to say we were members of Christian church in area. Reception class this year is full with appeals so my children probably wouldn't have got in this year. I work three days a week, I did have a lift share with another mum who lives near me so I didn't have to go and take DS on my day off. Unfortunately, she can't fit DD in her car as well as DS so this year I have to go to work on my days off to take them and pick them up.
Big challenge will come next year when DS is going to be in my class (one class per year group, staff have all recently had a change around of year groups so no way out really!).

Helokitty · 27/06/2010 19:23

I work 3.5 days, but spread it over 5. My DD goes to breakfast club every day, I work one full day, when my mum does the pick up, otherwise I finish work in time to pick my DD up the other 4 afternoons.

pointydog · 27/06/2010 19:29

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mrsmusic · 27/06/2010 21:10

My dd's not at school yet but I too work about 15 miles away. For me it's more important for her to go to the same school as the other children in the area than to go to the same one that I teach at (it helps that it happens to be a lovely school that she will go to!) and also we have a fab childminder, so she will just carry on going there before and after school.

MmeRedWhiteandBlueberry · 27/06/2010 21:11

When I had children in different schools to the one I worked in, I used a live-in aupair for all my childcare arrangements.

cornsilk5793 · 27/06/2010 21:12

good childminder

TheFallenMadonna · 27/06/2010 21:14

Dh takes them to school. They go to after school club and I pick them up from there.

bigTillyMint · 27/06/2010 21:17

My DC go to breakfast club and after-school club on the 3 days I work. I drop them at 8.10ish and pick-up between 4 and 4.30.

What time do you need to be at work / leave? I would say after-school club is fine for some days for a shortish time, if it was longer, I think I would prefer to use a childminder or something, particularly for a new Reception child.

aniseed · 27/06/2010 21:19

I currently have my son at the pre-school and breakfast club at the school which I work. This works really well as it is so easy. I also have a daughter whom I drop off at nursery in the morning.

However, I have a problem for September as ds1 unfortunately hasn't got a place at the school where I work as we live 200 metres too far away. This has completely thrown all my childcare plans up in the air. He is going to a school locally but it will be very tricky to do pick-ups and drop-off. Am planning on breakfast and after-school but this is costly and a long day for a 4 year old. Feeling very guilty that I won't be there for him at a crucial stage in his life.

Am appealing but appeal is not until 20th July as council is short-staffed! This means I cannot make any childcare arrangements, order uniform etc. Very frustrating and unsure whether this means I will be able to continue working full-time.

It's nice to see how other teachers manage. I always get from people 'Oh how lovely being a teacher, that must fit in with childcare'. Yes it does for the hols but not for the rest of it.

My main concern is that I will never have contact with his teacher and that concerns me.

Littlefish · 27/06/2010 21:22

I work 2 - 3 days a week. We use a mixture of before/after school club, MIL and DH.

Feenie · 27/06/2010 21:24

I work full-time. I have a wonderful childminder!

TeamEdward · 27/06/2010 21:33

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tryingtobemarrypoppins2 · 27/06/2010 22:17

aniseed poor you sounds like a really stressful time. How do you feel the appeal will go? What does your head think?

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DinahRod · 27/06/2010 22:27

Like you I do 3 days a week. The primary school does not offer wrap around care as it exists in a time-warp. Fortunately we have a good CM who'll take dc1 from 7.30am and he joins in with other mindees and her children who all go to the same school. It's a bit of a mad dash out in the morning to the CM for the eldest and to nursery for youngest but fortunately dh usually does it - we both have journeys to work of about 25miles.

mitochondria · 27/06/2010 22:34

It's a little tricky, as sons' primary doesn't have a before school or after school club.
This year, my parents have been doing the dropping off and picking up.
Next year, husband (who works part time) is re-jigging his hours so that he can do it.

Going to my school not an option (I'm secondary, they are primary).

musicposy · 27/06/2010 22:41

My eldest started at a different school - the village one - and my parents used to drop her off/ pick her up.

The school I taught at was very good, and the school she went to not nearly so good, and I could see her getting further and further behind the reception children where I was at. I found it all very hard, especially as I knew everything that was going on at my school, and nothing at DD's school. It was hard being so involved in school life and yet so uninvolved in my daughter's school life.

After a term, in January, a place came up at my school (I'd originally tried to get her in but no luck as we were out of catchment). I cracked and moved her. I used to take her with me in the mornings and she waited in my classroom with me until 10 to 9, and came round to me at the end of the day. None of the other staff minded. She was really well treated there, never had any trouble making friends, despite me being there, and loved it. She stayed there until the end of Y2 (it was an infant only school). I really wished it had been a primary; it was such a great experience for her.

A few times I had to stand in for her class and that was a nightmare, I wouldn't recommend teaching a class with your own child in it (so if there is only one class per year that could be an issue unless you move years). But I'd certainly say that having her at the school was great and a really good decision.

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