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James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi toast, > ?4.6M is my understanding. The diocese does contribute 10% though towards capital works though, doesnt it, being 'voluntary aided'?

With a major review of the system fir funding schools imminent, any initiAl financial calculations would only apply to a couple of years Opting out of the local education authority and coordinated Admissions, along with teachers pay and conditions, will be forever

Classes I meant, yes...

Sb what I plan to do over hols is Nap 830-930 or 9-10 Leave house Have lunch out - picnic Home for 130 Nap 1.30-3ish (twins often flake out then too though I am trying to drop their nap) baby bed at 6 This is the best compromise and let's us get out of the house Baby won't nap really in buggy or car

Something else to discuss... How many activities do your children do, and why? What was your experience of activities as a child?

The music room at the horniman Soft Play Peckham, or bellingham The grassed picnic area Peckham rye or playground dulwich park Bookstart lordshiP lane estate Dulwich library If you want coffees, best thing is Prob playdates at friends houses

People might like to note that the current Difficulties Locally for secondary places arise directly from the lack of lea secondary schools Thd various academies have admissions policies which do not 'join up' - hence something of a black hole locally I don't see that primaries going the same way would have any advantages at all It's the la who has coordinated and resourced the various bulge classes, for eg

Agree with Alice Best to spend time with other parents who don't stress too much All Mine have gone through phases of hitting/biting etc when tiny

Otta, I doubt she did But at the age of 7 or so I think she would realise it was an unkind thing to do But my main point really was about the father ... Surely it's instinctive to apologise on behalf of your child if they hurt or uOset a much smaller child

I am probably too polite! I felt really bad about it at first but then I looked at all the other people sitting down and thought ... Hang on!!

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was just responding to the bus thread . > Still think saying nothing is best way forward . You would have ignored the bus man, not said sorry?

No, that's fine I didn't post the thread ( or man on the bus thread) out of some deep emotional trauma It's just girly chat really... Chewed it over a bit at work too I try not to let other people get to me too much, tbh

I'm not saying it is! I wondered if I had been a bit wimpish to apologise But actually my normal reaction to someone complaining at me IS to say sorry... Hence my surprise that mr Lego land didn't adopt that approach...

I usually avoid it but parking at kings alone And managing three children wasn't very enticing either

Perfect age We took 7m plc twins and 5 yo to Egypt? No worries

Perfect age We took 7m plc twins and 5 yo to Egypt? No worries

Go for a picnic Peckham rye arboretum? Otherwise, Surrey docks farm does parties Peckham pulse Little Rascals

No he wasn't joking I said sorry, and ft bad about it at first But afterwards I thought we weren't really in the wrong It was the various adults sitting, he should have complained at But anyway, I just apologised ... Hence my surprise that the man in my Lego land thread wS rude to me Surely it's usual just to say sorry even if you don't feel you are in the wrong?

new mother Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As a general proposition, children should not get > seats when unrelated adults stand. Therefore I Get > ona bus, withtwo children, I sit, one goes on knee > and one stands. I would never take a seat for the > standing > I couldn't really have sat near the front and left thd baby I'm the buggy by the doors, nor easily kept hold of the toddler if she had stood by me on the crowded bus by the door My query isn't really so much what I should have done originally, but what I should have said to the man when he complained...

What's emperor syndrome?

I must admit at paradise wildlife park when I saw a boy punch a girl in the face in soft play I first reported him to staff ( he was asked to leave) and then took the crying girl to her mum and said what I had seen I didn't speak to the boy because he had already run off into the play frame I wonder if I am more prone to telling children off because I work in a school and you can't see bad behaviour without picking it up

Amongst various adults Man with stick then says 'are they your children? I think they are quite old enough to have given me a seat!' What would you have said? I won't tell you what I said/think just yet...

In brief Got onto crowded bus with two small children and baby in buggy Most seats full, most special seats at front full of able bodied adults Bus moves off while still trying to get buggy into the space Shoo children into a pair of seats nr the front trusting big one will keep 3 yo penned in Stand by buggy Can see Children's heads but not much else of crowd of people at the front Few stops in, a man with a stick comes past and sits down by buggy ( I had just sat but gave him my seat) I then call across bus ( much quieter now) to my two... Ate you ok? Next stop Children, 8 and 3, still sitting am

Excuse my typos too I will pose another moral dilemma, for contrast, in another thread

I think the longer lunchtime nap and no 3rd nap thing comes at more like 10m IME I think as baby gets older he will go longer On a day where I stay home in between creche and school runs baby does 45/90 mins at 830 or 9 And the same again starting 1130 - 1230 Been like that for a few months