Professional Childcare worker offering babysitting service

Joshua’s professional experience

• September 2014 - July 2015

  Support small groups of children in lessons and providing one to one support with children with additional needs. Support the teacher with implementing their lesson plan by doing activities with the children and giving feedback on how it went and if it needs to be improved or adapted in any way. Planning my own activities and implementing them with small groups of children. Being a role model for children by dressing smartly, being punctual, displaying positive behaviour and dissuading negative behaviour. Promoting positive behaviour like sharing with praise, stickers etc. and dissuading negative behaviour like hitting with time out, warning etc. Preforming first aid and paediatric first aid on children and putting it in the record book after. Learning Makaton (children's sign language) and implementing it into activities i do with children. Implementing Welsh into activities that i do with the children. Helping the children with subjects such as PE, Science, Literacy, Maths, IT, Geography, Music and Art. Taking an additional needs group for Maths and supporting them in their learning and development. Taking groups for forest schools to learn about nature, team work, the world around them and fire safety e.g. how to get onto a log by a fire the correct way. Teaching children about hygiene in ways such as getting them to brush their teeth and wash their hands after using the toilet. Making food for the children , preparing it and taking it to them so have for a snack. I then put it down get the best sitting children to take some food one at a time and when it is all gone or they don't want any more i take it back and sterilise the equipment and discard any rubbish.

• April 2014 - July 2014

  I helped the room leader implement their planning by doing activities with the children, which helped them to learn and develop in various different areas. I supervised the children both in the room and outside when they were playing. I helped to prepare, layout and dish out the children's lunch and supervise them when they were eating. I acted as a positive role model to the children by dressing appropriately, displaying positive and professional behaviour, discouraging negative behaviour and by being punctual. I discouraged negative behaviour like taking other children's toys by doing things such as putting children on time out and issuing verbal warnings. I encouraged positive behaviour like sharing with other children by doing things such as giving verbal praise, giving stickers and giving first choice of toy. I read stories with the children and encouraged them to read as well, this was to encourage them to learn and to improve their creative and imaginative development. I also sang songs with the children to encourage verbal development, cooperation amongst themselves, encourage verbal interaction and to help them to learn new words and actions. I helped the children to dress/undress when they were doing sport games, coming into the nursery or were leaving the nursery. I wiped down and cleaned the paly equipment outside if it was raining. I cleaned the children's water bottles I told staff if children needed to go to the toilet , instead of taking the as males are not allowed to do that in the nursery. I helped the younger children to go to sleep by providing them with physical contact e.g. tummy rubbing and by offering them verbal reassurance.

• July 2015 - August 2015

  I provided children with resources and activities so that they could play. I also encouraged the children to learn during their play. E.g. getting them to count in Welsh during hide and seek. I made sure that the children had something to eat during lunch and encouraged them to bring in healthy foods to eat. I risk assessed the equipment before the children came in and encouraged the children to assess the risks themselves in a safe and educational manner. I held meetings with other play workers, where we talked about what happened in the day and if we needed to change/improve anything. I acted as a positive role model to the children in ways such as i encouraged them to share the resources, i got them to ask me before they went to the bathroom, to say please and thank you and to not use any bad language especially with the older children around the younger ones. I planned trips and themed dress up days for the children to take part in. Finally i also encouraged the shyer children to take part in the activities and played with them to give them the confidence to play with other children in the setting.