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Ours is one of the cheaper ones round here too! And from June I forgot has been 118 for 3 and 4 year old and 123 for younger!! (Prices go up every year without fail and is not like you can shop around to get better price, everywhere has a wait list and is hardly fair to have to change your kids around anyway. They have a captive market and they know it):
Yeah every July 1 ours go up to
not looking forward to next week - no job to go to and practically no money. I HATE short teaching contracts (term or semester and not full year ones). I had to do the centrelink application for parenting payment and I'm anticipating in that DH will earn just that little bit too much to actually get anything to help. It was that way at the beginning of the year but he was working a bit more then as summer is busier that winter for tour guide operators. I've applied for one position today for next term & need to look closely at another teacher librarian position (not sure that the school philosophy will fit with me comfortably long term - it's permanent; pentecostal christian school. Some of what they ask is often a bit much for me in the application. I'm a practising Christian but sometimes some schools come across picky/fundamentalist leaning. Will need to read all the details later tonight carefully before completing application).
Great to hear the interview went well last week.
I hope your you get something sorted soon Leckert, the short term roundabout sucks.
I got the job. Very happy - so just got to sort out DS - but DH hasn't got sorted yet so not panicking until he does (he should hear end of the week on two he is in the process for). Long-term this is going to work out really well am sure.
:leap: :happydance: :leap::
Wooohoooo such great news WYSIWYG
:yeah: great news WYSIWYG.
Fantastic news wysiwyg!!!
I haven't posted in a while, but been reading along. I've been feeling pretty down and also really busy. On one hand I'm really enjoying all the time I have with the kids at the moment, but also realizing that such a (near) complete division of labor really doesn't work well for our family. I need to get a job and DH needs to be able to work less and spend more time with the kids. So I really need to finish my PhD and get that job, but progress is really slow at the moment (what with all the time with the kids...). Trying to enjoy the present and all the time I have with them now and trust that things will come good soon(ish).
Good to hear from you nyigi. I think often it isn't obvious what solution is the best for a family until you try a few things and work out what doesn't work. I am not sure the situation we will have in a few weeks is what I would have thought best 5 years ago - and maybe it won't work forever.
DH got the job he was after, so he starts a week on Monday, I start new job week after and our crazy neighbours (who some of you might remember) looks like they have moved out - so has been a great week, and is DS birthday tomorrow. Next week need to sort out the extra day for DS but I am sure something will fall into place for that.
Yay wysiwyg that is great news!!
We are using a nanny FYI one day a week. She's great. I find it a lot easier than dragging them out to childcare and before school care. She does all the running around on Mondays -
School drop, kinder drop, school pick up and sometimes kinder pick up. In between she plays with them and has fun. It's working well for us so far.
I might ask you a few questions on FB about that, we might be forced that way anyway. My main concern with that is the size of our flat (and the state of it if I am honest, we all have a high mess tolerance but am not sure could impose on someone else), but maybe if organize for DS to do a playgroup that day would only be home for half a day.:
When DH has placements (he's doing Masters of Teaching) I think we're going to have to find a nanny ... there wll be school and kinder drop offs etc,:
Peanutter, Im doing my masters of teaching too. Just have the prac left for next year (had a baby or Id be finishing up now):
Great news re your DH's job wysiwyg! What a fantastic week of good news.
And you're absolutely right, you do just need to try things out and see how they go.
Cool trishalishous, how are you finding the Masters of Teaching? It's something I've been thinking about maybe doing but I'm still not sure how I'd go teaching in a school (I absolutely love the teaching I've done but it's all been adults at university or individual kids).
I'm still recovering from a wild afternoon on Wednesday. DS2 choked on some food and we had a rather dramatic trip to hospital. Thankfully he's absolutely fine now. But I'm still calming down.
I'm a middle school (yr 6-10) trained teacher librarian. Over the years I've expanded to straight secondary teacher / teacher librarian. My first prac was in a primary school (yr6/7 class) and I struggled with it my second prac was secondary and that was much better. I discovered that I was more suited to the changing of students during the day than having the same students all day. Having said that I've enjoyed my time interacting with the primary students when in a reception/foundation to Yr 12 schools.:
Im enjoying the masters, but I did secondary teaching as my undergrad so had a fair idea what I was in for, content-wise.
The workload is full on though (plus I work 40hrs a FN!)
Thanks leckert and trishalishous!
I think I'd be the same leckert and would also prefer changing students during the day.
I've loved helping people gain in their knowledge, understanding and abilities so I think teaching would be great for me. I'm going to try and keep doing that at the university level but I worry about the lack of jobs and so sometimes think about secondary school but I worry about dealing with teenagers en mass, how long it would take to retrain, and whether the job situation would really be any better (especially after your posts leckert!)
Do you guys feel like you get to see much learning?
That does sound pretty full on trishalishous!