My Qualifications
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Education and Qualifications

2020 

• SchemaPlay Practitioner Accreditation 
• Full Paediatric First Aid (12hr)
• Designated Safeguarding Lead Training

2019 

• Safeguarding - Introduction to Single Agency Training
• Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering 

2014 

• ​Early Years Teacher Status 

2012 

• Safeguarding Level 1 
• Food Safety Level 2 
• Paediatric First Aid 

2001 

• Psychology 2:1 BSc with Honours 

1995 

• 2 A Levels 

1993 

• GCSE's - English, Maths, Science (5 C's), Child Development , Art, History, and Geography (4 D's)

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Professional Development Summary 

EYFS Courses:

• EYFS 2012 Key Messages 
• EYFS Development Matters
• Outstanding Observation Assessment and Planning 
• Principles Into Practice 
• Childminders Planning for Effective Learning Using the New Early Years Outcomes

Sign Language Courses 

• Makaton Courses for Parents and Carers Beginners Workshop Modules 1-4
• Sign for Communication 
• Sign for a Story
• Sign for Maths
• Sign for Feelings and Behaviour

Healthy Under 5's Courses 

• Eating for Health : Starting Solid Foods 
• Healthy Under 5s Focus on Obesity
• Time to Smile 
• Supporting Children's Health : Asthma Module 

Safeguarding Courses 

• Early Help, The Role of a Childminder 
• Safeguarding and Child Protection Basic Awareness
• Safeguarding During COVID-19
• Prevent Online Training Course 
• Female Genital Mutilation Online Course 

Conferences 

• Emotional Development in the Early Years (Brazelton Touchpoints)
• Schema Play 

Other

• Wellbeing and Involvement 
• Think Together, Learn Together 
• Early Language Development Programme Training: Working with the Under 3s 
• Standard 3 Workshop Mathematics and Literacy 
• Communication Friendly Spaces Approaches 
• Loose Parts Play 
• The Communication Trust's Online Short Course
• Developing Resilient Learners
• Maths and Science in the Early Years (Schemas)
• Hygge Wanderlust Child Study 
• Introduction to Dough Disco 
• Attended Level 1 Forest School

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Books Read

• Extending Thought in Young Children : A Parent Teacher Partnership (Athey)
• Threads of Thinking (Nutbrown)
• Young Children Learning Through Schemas (Mairs)
• Observation, Assessment and Planning (Brodie)
• Treasure Baskets and Beyond (Gasgoyne)
• The Boy Who Would be a Helicopter (Gussin-Paley)
• Bringing the Froebel Approach to your Early Years Practice (Tovey)
• Talk for Writing (Pie Corbett)
• Maths Mastery 
• Attention Balance and Coordination (Sally Goddard Blythe)
• We Don't Play with Guns Here (Penny Holland)
• Nature Based Pedagogy (Niki Buchan)

​(To name a few)

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Subscriptions

• Nursery World Magazine (Past Subscription)
• Ofsted News
• Foundation Years Team
• 4 Children
• Community Playthings
• National Literacy Trust 
• TES
• Brazelton Touchpoints Centre 
• Early Education
• Kathy Brodie 
• Teach Preschool
• Playful Learning in the Early Years 
• Muddy Faces 
• Forestry Commission
• Teachwire
• The Imagination Tree
• Fairydust Teaching 
• Right From the Start
• Best Practice in Education

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Membership

• Milton Keynes Play Association 
• School of Spread the Happiness (Dough Disco etc.)