TEACHERS who are mummys

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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

My only major concern about having DS1 come to my school is the very real possibility DS2 might not get a place! :0

I imagine that siblings would have priority (they certainly do here) so as long as you get one in, you should be OK.

I work 2 days - dh takes the older 2 to school for bfast club and goes onto work, then go to afterschool club too. I take youngest dd to childminders and she is there all day, then I collect other 2. Makes for long day. Same school not an option either (primary - sec sen!)

Thanks for asking this OP, DD is only 5 months now, but I've already been wondering about this (assuming DH and I are both still teaching and living in the same place) and it was good to see some other people's responses.

We work in different secondaries in the same town, about 20 miles away from home, and because my school starts at 8.15 and traffic is bad, we have to leave the house at about 6.45, so I'm not looking forward to finding a childminder who will start that early! Because we live so far away, there's no chance of getting a place in the feeder primaries near work and we've got no family locally. I'm just hoping that something changes over the next few years before we have to worry about it - maybe we'll be able to afford a house nearer the schools!

Fink I guess you can get a child minder close to your school or DHs school. I am looking at £400 for 2 babies when i go back to work 3 days.....its shocking! That's just under 1/3 of my pay each month

Thanks MaryPoppins, that's what we've done with a nursery - it's in the town where we work rather than where we live, my problem is that we'd never get a place at a primary where we work, they're oversubscribed already without having applications from people who live more than 20 miles away!

IKWYM about the cost though - I'm currently working as support staff and my full-time pay would only just have covered the nursery fees, I'm looking for 3 days' teaching from January as that will pay the same, plus I'll get f/t pay rather than term-time only. I know a lot of teachers who have completely given up work when they have more than one pre-school child as it just makes more financial sense - then the problem comes 5 years down the line when you want to go back and you're up against cheapie NQTs who have more recent experience!