The Crepe Papers

[motherinferior]

Did it!

IME there is nowhere near enough SALT provision for even the youngest children. At Primary it is an occasional visit to give advice, not a proper full-on session unless the school buy in extra. I am not sure secondary children would get any at all

I weirdly remember quite a bit of SALT provision in Norwich in the 1970s- a friend of mine was given it for his lisp, which was AFAIR no worse than DD2's is now. (He is now a successful musician.)

You can get salmon fish fingers, made with sustainable salmon, yet, but they prefer 'real' ones . I decided to bag myself some mackerel in an oat crust instead as I am the only inmate of the Inferiority Complex who likes mackerel.

Ds's little school has a full-time SALT, I believe, but it is a bit special (caters for those with fairly severe physical disabilities).

Oven chips are not often on the menu here as some ingredient in them upsets my stomach. Dcs also not particularly keen. I think I may have overdone fishfinger convenience suppers during the couple of years I was ill with depression, as the dcs are rather underwhelmed by them as well. Ds's favourite supper is macaroni cheese and since I have become aware of the existence of ready-made cheese sauce, mac cheese is very easy indeed.

I must purchase some ready-made cheese sauce....

I should point out that I am a perfectly good cook, and rather like cooking. Most of the time. But the prospect of the weekend and then half term and the endless meal provision is making me feel quite faint, I must admit.

Mine love mac cheese too! Sometimes I do a bacon one for a change!

Well done rubyjunior (and Herbsjunior!)

Since getting a fish bone stuck in his throat, DS has declared that he no longer likes fish fingers or fish cakes, which rather halves my kiddy tea ideas. He will eat tuna, mackerel and salmon, however.

I feel I should make him more complex dinners, but frankly CBA to cook two complicated meals in one evening. And anyway, he gets his curries, tagines and moussakas for school dinner.

But really. I'm seriously considering the SALT career option.

Just watched that bit on 4OD and cried.

It may also be that his family just wasn't, for whatever reason, pushing for support for him which I suspect makes a lot of difference in what comes through.

Herbs, see if you can go and find a friendly SALT to shadow. You are lucky in that you live near an excellent place to do the training - at least I believe that City University is the business. Or used to be.

(I foolishly started off in a head injuries unit, which rather put me off).

Killing time in the computer mainframe room, while I empty out all the back-up tapes from the last virus-ridden week. Apparently I have to seal them in plastic and bury them under 12 foot of concrete.

Ah, City University you say. I saw that it does a post-grad in SALT, and thought 'handy'. The problem is, I guess, that it's two years' full-time study, with not much opportunity for earning money in the mean time. Though I suppose I could do the odd bit of writing/editing here and there. What is 'full time study' anyway? 9-5? In my day it was five lectures a week, and the rest of it loafing about.

It's fate. City is having a post-grad open evening on 20 November. Course fees are paid by the NHS! Seems the timings are three days of lectures, one of clinical practice and one of private study.

I'm feeling all excited!

How exciting Herbs! I can imagine you doing that and you'd be fab! It would be very worthwhile and therefore likely to feel satisfying I think.. Definitely find an experienced one to spend a day with (and cross examine about it all). I did a post grad course at City (law) about 500 years ago. It was good!

I do hope I'd be good. I'd been looking for something 'worthwhile' to do for ages, and this has just lit my fuse.

I think one has to have volunteered in a salty capacity to get on a course, so I shall set about looking for a mentor when I get back from hol.

Starting NHS salary is pants (£21K), but it seems it's possible to supplement it with private work.

Ooh, Herbs! Great timing!
And with a small DC at school, not a bad time to do studying.

Your pants starting salary is only a couple of k less than our entire household income. :)

Seriously, Herbs, I can really see you as a SALT. It was something I really, really wanted to do, but I realised I would have been rubbish at it.

Indeed. By next year he can go to after school club when necessary. He's already asking if he can go now!

But I need to apply by 2 December, and to show that I've done voluntary work, etc, by then. Could be tricky!

Thanks all for your votes of confidence. Oh and sorry stropps re salary! 'Did I mean to be so rude?'

London costs of living, blah blah blah.

What an inspiring turn this thread has taken! Good luck Herbs.

Educating Yorkshire has highlighted the incredibly painstaking pastoral and other behind the scenes stuff schools do, I think. So time-consuming and skilled.

Glad to find other Tiger fans. I would have abolished stockings without it some years ago (my dd was terrified of the idea of FC but liked stockings, which caused all sorts of logistical complications, so the big guy was outed as a fake quite early on).

hello all, would like to recommend film about crepeys (more or less) called 'Enough Said' w/ Julia Louis Dreyfus, James Gandolfini and Catherine Keener. absolutely bloody marvellous, would like to go straight back and see it again

herbs, finding something worthwhile and different really fab. i looked at pgce in basic skills last year but couldn't get anyone to return my calls/answer my emails and retired defeated

lalsy [stern look] - what are you doing on mumsnet?

Wow just wow herbs! Good for you.
I have wept and guffawed through the Yorkshire programme and found it incredibly inspiring.love it when a plan comes together.

Re fish fingers- love em. They are the 5:2 snack of choice and our local sainsbury has a massive photo of a fish finger sandwich on the entrance porch. Just sayin.

Need a new name, someone's been reading my posts. Probably fine, but just in case I need to moan about a loved one in peace...

It's alpha Lima tango Oscar, btw