Work with Children

Apprentice Nursery Practitioner (Back to the Garden Childcare) - November 2020 - Present
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Working 40 hours a week in Preschool (ages 3 to 5)
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Researching, planning and carrying out age appropriate activities
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Completed First Aid Training for children and Babies (Tiger Lilly)
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Completed E - Learning modules on topics such as health and safety and Safeguarding
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Completed training for the Reggio Emilio Approach that the nursery is built around
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Edited videos for the nursery (room tours during the pandemic, video of the poem '100 languages of the child'.
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Carry out observations on my key children using the Early Years Framework
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1:1 Targeted Support for a child with Autism
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Completing a Level 3 Apprenticeship in Early Years Childcare
Au Pair in America (Minnesota) - July 2019 - August 2020
Provide full time child care for a family with two children - a 5 year old and a 7 year old
Get them ready for school and do the school drop off
Pick them up from school
Entertain them - play games, dress up, chess, bikes, sledding
Prepare Dinner
Bathe them, read stories and get them ready for bed
Up to 10 hour days (school holidays)
Homeschooling during the COVID 19 lockdown
Girl Scout Daisy Troop (5-7 year olds) - October 2019 - July 2020
Intention was to sign up to volunteer at an existing troop
Instead ended up starting my own Girl Scout Troop
Sourced and secured a location
Started with 5 girls - grew to 10 girls in 4 months
Planned meetings to earn petals from the scout law (badges)
Organised Girl Scout cookie sales for the troop
Attended Leader trainings
Childminder - 2 kids in Manchester - June 2018 - July 2019
Looked after a 2 and a 4 year old
2 - 3 days a week during university term time
Worked up to 10 hour days
Duties included: getting them dressed, feeding them, changing nappies, going to museums/ parks/ garden centres, playing games, basic teaching of letters and numbers, sing songs, age appropriate arts and crafts
Children's TV Drama - "My Brother's Life Without Sound" - May 2019
Wrote an age appropriate script (6 - 12 year olds)
Sent out casting calls for child actors
Sourced local child actors
Followed strict laws and guidelines for working with under 16 actors
Obtained required child licences
Directed 15 children over a 4 day shoot
PR County Photographer for Girlguding Greater Manchester West - January 2018 - July 2019
Official photographer for County events
Ability to organise and co-ordinate between groups of people
Shoot and edit videos for social media pages
Designed, launched and updated the County Instagram account
Follow strict organisation policies for under 18s (especially on social media)
Rainbow leader (Girlguiding UK (5-7 year olds) - September 2014 - Present
Plan and deliver interactive and age appropriate activities at weekly meetings
Collaborate with other units, leaders and sections
Active participation in leadership training opportunities
Mentor to new leaders
Member of Growth and Retention Team to attract HE students to volunteer
Experienced with working with children aged 5-7 

Effectively plan and run interactive and enjoyable activities and meetings 

Successfully completed Leadership training 

First Aid Trained
Organised field trips
Summer Camp Counsellor - Camp Wabasso (New Hampshire) - July 2016 - August 2016 & Lake Stockwell Day Camp (New Jersey) - June 2017 - August 2017
Created fun, educational activities for campers 8-13
Supervised campers during activities: horse riding, archery, swimming in the lake, arts and crafts, woodwork, high ropes course, baking
Camp official photographer (Lake Stockwell) - took 10,000 photos a week, made videos for social media and parents newsletter
Taught basic photography skills lessons to 13-16 year olds
