Olivia Sanderson

- Ensuring a safe and nurturing environment for children through consistent supervision and careful monitoring of play areas.

- Encouraging physical fitness and wellbeing through outdoor activities.

- Also, tailoring activities to make use of resources and engage all children based on their age, interests and abilities. - Furthermore, through fostering my creativity amongst young learners I organised many arts and craft sessions and planned educational games to stimulate their cognitive growth.

- Improving fine motor skills in children by introducing age-appropriate craft and play activities which helped to show my resilience when handling and managing children's behaviour to result in a harmonious learning environment, by tailoring the teaching methods to each child as every child has different learning needs.

- By preparing daily activity schedules, this promoted a fun-filled learning environment and experience for the children.

- Maintaining clean, safe play environments by disinfecting toys and surfaces regularly boosts the overall health of children and staff alike.

- Collaborating closely with other practitioners to create engaging lesson plans catered to different learning styles helped to promote inclusivity within the classroom using diverse teaching materials and practises in line with Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

- By incorporating songs and rhymes into daily routines, this helped to enhance children's speech abilities.

- Developing stronger language skills in children by implementing creative storytelling sessions.

- Promoting emotional and social development of children by encouraging learning through play and sensory activities.

- During meal times, I provided support by encouraging balanced diets for better health.

- Supporting children from the age of 9 months up to 5 years in weaning from liquid to solid food and aided them in learning to feed themselves.

- Adhering strictly to hygiene standards whilst preparing meals and snacks; ensuring the overall well-being of the children.

- Supervising and supported children during meal times with strict attention to detail to mitigate risks.

- Conducting regular parent-practitioner handovers which fostered strong communication channels between nursery and home environments.

- By assisting with nap times, this contributed to improved energy levels amongst children throughout the day which helped to maintain detailed records of each child's progress by facilitating personalised care and learning plans.

- Overseeing a key group of children and kept detailed progress observations.

- Handling nappy changes and baby feeding while keeping detailed log sheets and also aided children in the process of toilet training effectively.

- By keeping accurate learning journey records and sharing updates with parents and carers for cohesive childcare maintains that what is happening in the nursery setting/home is also being carried out at home/the nursery setting.

- Applying paediatric first aid and managed incidents with a calm composure.

- Raising safeguarding concerns with senior staff to maintain positive child security and wellbeing to meet the legal requirements.