Childcare at 7.45am

Spendless

Tenyearstogo wrote: »

This comes on here everytime breakfast clubs are mentioned.

My sons school does not require children to be signed in or escorted by an adult. So why the assumption that all schools do?

The last time one came up, the breakfast club in question didn't require the kids to be pre-booked in either. The person posting about it had seen a child being dropped off by taxi but the driver not watching child in. If a club doesn't know who is coming then how would they know who was missing? The usual procedures that a school has for ringing the relevant adult if a child doesn't turn up but no-one has notified them why, would not kick into place until later. This is why I believe more and more clubs are covering their own back by asking that an adult brings and/or signs them in.

Several people including myself have asked if the club will allow them to make their own way there, as far as I'm aware it hasn't been answered.

FBaby

If you read, I asked because the three that I used had the same rule which I believe are a requirement of our local council.

quidsy

The op wouldn#'t ask on here if she thought letting the kids go alone was acceptable.

Several very decent optiosn have been presented, speaking to the school, finding a teen babysitter, even asking the teachers & TA's themselves.

Has the OP followed any of these suggestions yet?

duchy

Tenyearstogo wrote: »

This comes on here everytime breakfast clubs are mentioned.

My sons school does not require children to be signed in or escorted by an adult. So why the assumption that all schools do?

Why "all schools" ?
It is pretty obvious that many do expect a parent to drop them off and do a handover (and in the current climate I am amazed that any don't from a protection viewpoint-but I take your word for it that they exist ) Even if "some" schools do it the OP needs to know if the Club she wants to use does it or not as if they do it pretty much scuppers all her plans.

I'm still a bit bemused at the "only three childminders serve the entire school" My son's school was a single form entry school and even we had many more than that. I suspect the OP has asked the school rather than done her own research with the LA childminder lists.

onlyroz

duchy wrote: »

I'm still a bit bemused at the "only three childminders serve the entire school" My son's school was a single form entry school and even we had many more than that. I suspect the OP has asked the school rather than done her own research with the LA childminder lists.

And most childminders know other childminders. When I was looking for one the LEA lists showed three childminders doing collections/drop-offs at the school. I rang all three and none had space - but they passed my details onto other childminders and one of these called me and I ended up using her for over two years.

md123

I haven't read all the replies so don't know if you have found a solution. I work in a breakfast club and our rules have recently been changed so that all children have to be signed in. A 6 year old boy and his 8 year old sister, who are both sensible, got dropped off in the car park every time they came and walked a 2 minute walk to the door. One time the boy waited till his mum had driven away and round the corner and started running after her not listening to his sister to come into the building. Luckily she managed to get us and my colleague managed to catch him. After that the rules changed so that kids had to be brought into the building

Spendless

duchy wrote: »

I'm still a bit bemused at the "only three childminders serve the entire school" My son's school was a single form entry school and even we had many more than that. I suspect the OP has asked the school rather than done her own research with the LA childminder lists.

I'm not. My daughter's school at the bottom of my street, a 2 or 3 form per year entry and a very wide catchment area is well served with wrap around care, childminders and the private nursery also do before/after/holiday care.
The next nearest school less than a 10 min walk away, is a single form entry church school and has only 2 childminders picking up from it. They have a breakfast club which is run by school staff and the private nursery has picked up all the surplus business to the extent that when my friend with a child at this school needed after school care 1 day a week the private nursery didn't have any spaces. I told her the wrap around care at my childs school had previously done a pick up service from hers and to ring them to see if they would accommodate that again, which they have done.

Childcare for the primary school years is extremely hit and miss depending on what area you live and where you child goes to school.

laurel7172

daisiegg wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: you have clearly never worked in a school. My work laptop is about 10 years old and you cannot have more than one window open at a time or it freezes. This is considered perfectly acceptable!

Thank god for the death of XP...we'll have to have new computers by next year or the viruses will kill the lot for us. Make sure you keep copies of your files...

nearlyrich

I don't work in a school I work in IT so I am used to pretty much up to the minute kit. Using 10 year old laptops is counter productive if it takes well over an hour per week of your teaching time waiting for a boot up.

daisiegg

nearlyrich wrote: »

I don't work in a school I work in IT so I am used to pretty much up to the minute kit. Using 10 year old laptops is counter productive if it takes well over an hour per week of your teaching time waiting for a boot up.

I don't think anyone would disagree with you; it's not like we use them out of choice!