Key children

[jessica]

hiya , does anyone on here have any key children at the early years seting that you work in? If so how many? wb x

[Heidi]

Originally Posted by jessica

hiya , does anyone on here have any key children at the early years seting that you work in? If so how many? wb x

It depends on how many children you have at the nursery/setting and how many staff you have.

If you have 60 children and only 6 members of staff, it would be fair to distribute them evenly, so everyone has 10.

This number may differ if a staff member comes in for only a day, so this staff member may be given less - she doesn't see or know all the children and it may be deemed unfair to give her the same amount of work as someone who is there all week.

The manager will assess everything and do what's best for the children, but take into consideration her staff - if they are inexperienced and not so confident, so I wouldn't load too much work on them, so they are not overwhelmed.
In this instance, myself and more experience members of staff would take on more work!

Nothing is quite black and white.

[crazychicklou]

Hi, I work in a 2-5 year old room and there are only 2 of us who are full time qualified members of staff, so as Room Leader / Deputy Manager I have 11, the other NN has 10, the part time NN who only does mornings has 4 and our Play Assistant who is FT but not qualified as 2 as she needs Key children for her course but is supported by myself. :) As Heidi said, it will vary depending on the setting - once we get a member of staff to cover the afternoons i will put any new children with her / him and the morning nursery nurse as they will make up 1 member of staff.

[jessica]

Thank you for replying back x