Exhausted!
 

Hello everyone in preschool, just wondering how much time staff are given to do paper work such as learning journeys, I.E.P's, planning etc etc. OR is it that you do all this at home as a voluntary worker.
Feeling very overworked and under paid.

i used to give one session a week non contact time but then i ran over ratio daily. i never asked people to take work home for several reasons not least data protection issues but also work life balance! i didnt want to so didnt ask them to

Hi Catrina
We don't get enough time!!!!! The manager has told us that if we need to and all is calm in the setting then at 10.30 ish each morning one staff member can go off for 15 mins and do their learning journey's however this rarely seems to happen, somehow dispite being over ratio because of having to have 2 staff members in a room for safe guarding and with the set up of our building, getting away to where all the paperwork is kept can be a logistical nightmare. Sometimes I try to get them and bring them to the main room but then you have children fighting for your attention when you are trying to concentrate. We do have one (sometimes 2 if we can sweet talk the commitee) key work meeting a term.
I work 3 mornings and one afternoon a week so I personally tend to go in the morning before I start work at 12 and do it then however I am still behind even then and it is unpaid.
Basically a nightmare and kinda the same as you at the moment.
Charlie