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[Helen Dempster]

Hello

Just a quick question or 2...

with your attendance sheets - (1) how do you remember to get the parents to sign each week (I always forget!) My attendance book is really quite bad with not getting signatures - one of the things I really must get my finger out and sort out!! (2) Do you write down ALL your mindees, even the ones who are only after school? It just seems a waste of the book for these?

Thanks all.

[Bear23]

i know its a pain, but it has to be done for everyone

Fire drills, prove your not going over numbers etc x

[jelly15]

I leave getting the parents to sign until the end of the month, then get the four or five at once IYSWIM. I haven'y got any schoolies at the momment but if I did I would be using it for them too.

[Daisy1956]

I use one attendance sheet per month so only need one signature. You need to include everyone even before and after schoolies.

[JCrakers]

I only sign mine in and out every day..parents dont. I didnt realise they had to???

Ofsted gave me a good overall and outstanding in two areas so I didnt lose out

Becky

[Mouse]

I don't get parents to sign my attendance register. I'm sure there's nothing that says you have to.

I know some people say it's good practice, but I don't see how.

[clio0602]

I have never got parents to sign only because I forget and they are always in a rush

[Beetlejuice]

It's not an Ofsted requirement - one of my DD's friends mums is an Ofsted inspector and she told me it's not necessary. I find the parents just want to get home after their long day and don't want any extra paperwork to faff with.

[ChocolateChip]

No, it's not a legal requirement, just considered good practice.
I used to use MM weekly attendance records but now I've made up my own, a whole month on a page for each child so I just ask them to sign once a month.

[Chatterbox Childcare]

It isn't a requirement, legal or ofsted, that they be signed but it is a legal requirement that you have accurate time records for each child. This is for all children.

[Helen Dempster]

Thanks everyone, I will get my act together and do this properly for everyone in future. I think when my NCMA attendance register is finished, I will make my own - and just get them to sign once per month

[JCrakers]

I have an A4 sized lined hardback book/binder and I pencil 5 columns in. Its split into 4 for the four days I work. Week commencing at the top
Headers are: day of the week, name of child, Time In, Time out and signature which i sign when they leave the premises.

For the school aged children it just states in at 8am out at 8.50am...signed by me, and then later in the day I write their names again and they are in at 3.15 and out at 6pm...signed again


Becky

[clio0602]

Sorry for butting in but can you have all children on the same sheet or a seperate one each?