Early years practitioner Review

I’m in ratio with the children, I serve breakfast, snack, lunch and tea to the children, engage with the children in messy plays which include many different themes for the children to learn from, maths games , role plays like playing in the kitchen, baby’s and dress up and literacy games. I help the children understand the world the best way I can, I help answer any questions they may have. I read them books. I am also trained in nappy changing and toileting so that’s another part of my day.

Yes, I have developed my communication skills more as well as my time management, mange-ring my apprenticeship work, work itself and being there for different children at different places has helped. I have learnt lots of new skills as well such as conflict resolution, as before this role I would of had no clue what to do but now learning what to do when the children have a dispute has helped me learn that skill.

I enjoy my programme a lot, it’s allowed me to push myself to the point where in not over pushing myself but I am able to get the best out of me from myself. I am learning new stuff and always developing skills, either ones I had prior the programme or ones I learnt from my programme and I know I am always supported.

My programme is very organised I always know what I’m doing when I’m doing it, I know when I have tasks for and what to do as it’s always well explained to me and i always know if I have a webinar set for me and when my visits are, I’m never stressed because I don’t know when something is.

My employer supports me a lot, i know I can go to them for anything I need wither that’s asking help for a task or about a policy’s questions or training question, I am always 100% supported. Everyone within my setting is always there to help and I have never felt like I am stuck in silence and I can’t ask anyone.

They support me as much as they can, they always make sure I know what’s going on and my tasks are well explained and I always have plenty of time to do them and I know if I ever get stuck if I give my assessor an message cause I’m stuck she will get back to me as soon as she can to help.

Since training I feel I have performed better due to I feel i understand my role better now I feel I know what everything does and mean I understand policy’s and safeguarding which means I feel like I understand how my role works as a whole and it’s all because of my training provider.

Unfortunately no however our nursery is also a forest school so when the children go out it’s as part of our forest school, the older children will learn how to use tools such as a bow-saw, the children will watch the adult build fires and occasionally make food on the fires for them to eat after, this helps them develop many different skills.

Yes

The Wendy house nursery supports children the best they can, they are always happy to create care plans for the children so everyone is in the loop of how to best support the particular child. Wendy house nursery also supports many different dietary requirements with every meal, such as different milks, cheeses, meats or breads and the list goes on, there are different plated and Bowls for different dietary needs so no cross contamination.

Make sure even if you unsure it’s the job you want in your future make sure you still come in positive and engaging in everything because your attitude does effect the children wither that’s positive or negative the children will know, they will engage because your engaging. I would tell them how even tho the job sounds easy it’s not yogi have to be in the correct mind set always you will be faced with challenges you would never know would be involved in a childcare job but at the end of everyday you feel rewarded with the fact you taught a child something new about the world.