Nursery assistant Review

My role as an early years practitioner is to provide care for children ages birth to 5 years and to ensure that all the children are getting the care and learning opportunities to help them learn and develop. This include planning and implementing activities to support them and physical care routines.

I have learnt a lot by doing my Interserve apprenticeship from the basics of the EYFS to theories and theorists and first aid training. My doing the webinars i am able to get the maximum amount of knowledge provided by Interserve to help me succeed in my career as a Nursery Nurse.

I have really enjoyed the program so far. The webinars are a great way to learn and are interactive, they have provided a lot of information for me to use first hand in my practice. My assessor Kavita Purshottam has been so helpful with helping me understand my work and giving me help whenever needed.

The program is very well organised, with a mix of online webinar training to in practice observations. My favourite part of this program was definitely the webinars as i loved studying about all the different topics. I also really enjoyed the first aid training provided by Interserve both online and practical.

I do receive a great amount of support from my employer, although i do find it hard to fit in the Interserve work with work itself and my personal life. My employers have supported me throughout the apprenticeship and helped me with any concerns or issues i have such as with my coursework.

I receive a lot of support from my assessor. [This section of the comment has been removed by a member of the RateMyApprenticeship Team because it did not meet our site terms and conditions] has helped me so much throughout this entire apprenticeship and even throughout lockdown. She has broken down work to help me understand it better and is very understanding when it comes to work and coursework balance. She is always available to message when i am struggling with coursework.

Everything that i have learned during this apprenticeship has given me information and knowledge to put into my everyday practice. Knowledge such as schemas was a great theory to learn about and now in my practice i notice children using schemas throughout the day and are much more aware to them. This is just one example of how i have used information that i have learnt throughout my apprenticeship.

There are not any extra-curricular activities at my work at the moment due to Covid 19. We have previously been to the ‘Healthy Teeth, Happy Smiles’ event to represent the nursery and do have Christmas activities to do together as a workplace such as dinner. When i am not working i usually spend time with my friends and enjoy going to concerts.

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Interserve is an amazing apprenticeship programme which allows you to learn knowledge about every topic of your job to put into practice. It has a great balance of online training and coursework. The assessors will help you with as much as you need and provide the best support when needed.

I would personally make sure that you plan out your workload to get done over the months equally as I didn’t and I ended up with a lot of work to do at the end and struggled to get it completed. Also talk to your assessor when you have an issue or are struggling with a topic and they will help you.