Katelyn

My Summary

My Experience

I have been surrounded by childcare since I was eight years old when my mother began childminding. Since then, I have loved helping her with daily tasks, playtime and activity planning. Having done a 2-year Level 3 Childcare and Education course in college, I am a qualified early years educator and have lots of experience working with children and studying early development. As part of this course, I completed 750 hours of placement in both a preschool and a primary school (taking care of children aged 6 months - 5 years as well as reception-aged children). This invaluable experience solidified my desire to pursue a career in education as I absolutely loved getting to know the children in the settings, helping them learn and nurturing their individuality. I am currently a training teacher at the University of Gloucestershire, where I have learnt lots more about how to effectively educate children and have put many strategies to use in my long-term placement with a year 3 class. I pride myself on having received positive feedback throughout my education and teacher training about my commitment to positive behaviour management, maintaining good relationships, building professional partnerships and effective teaching. I have had a wonderful time building meaningful relationships with the children I have worked with and am excited to continue to build experience through being a nanny/babysitter!

I have completed training for first aid, safeguarding, Prevent, ACEs and Forest schooling.

As for paid employment, I worked in a retail role for 2 years where I used organisation, time-management, communication and customer service skills to ensure I fulfilled all assigned tasks and responsibilities to a high standard and left customers satisfied with their shopping experience.

My Qualifications

GCSE Results:
English Language - 9
English Literature - 9
Mathematics - 5
Combined Science, Trilogy Higher Tier - 7-7
Geography - 8
Spanish - 8
Fine art - 7
Travel and Tourism – Distinction

Level 3 CACHE NCFE Diploma in Childcare and Education (Early Years Educator) Results:
Child development from conception to seven years – A*
Children’s health and well-being – A*
Providing safe environments for children - A*
Child health – A*
Play and learning – A*
Understanding children’s additional needs – A*
Observation, assessment and planning – A*
Supporting emergent literacy -A*
Supporting emergent mathematics – A*
Preparing for school readiness – A*
International perspectives – A*
Reflective practice for professional development – A*
Professional partnerships in early years – A*
Certificate External Assessment – A*
Diploma External Assessment - B
Completion of professional practice portfolio
Completion of 750 placement hours
Overall grade – A*

BEd (Hons) Primary Education with Qualified Teacher Status (KS1/KS2, ages 5-11):
Completed first year of three with an overall First

My Availability

I am able to be completely flexible during the time I am in Swindon following my university calender (school holidays plus a long summer from mid-June - mid September. Please note that my availablity for before school childcare is subject to how close your house is to mine as I do not drive so would have to consider travel moreso for earlier hours, and also depends on what time of year it is as stated above.

My Fees

• Babysitting from £11.00 per hour
• Nannying from £11.00 per hour (gross)

I am open to discussing fair fees, taking into consideration the number of children and expected responsibilities.