Apprentice Blog

On Friday I decided to stay a little later at the pre-school than my normal working hours and paint the Wendy house in the garden. I plan to add numbers, letters and lots of lovely flowers to the outdoor area for the children. It’s the second...

Wow, how quick those 6 weeks go! And after my first week back, they seem like a lifetime ago. My pre-school is busy with lots of new little ones, I've got another key child so I've spent the week getting to know her; it's lovely seeing new...

This first week of the summer holidays has been lovely with my children, enjoying the sunshine and just being together. Needless to stay in this heat I’ve spent most of the week in the pool and not had the laptop out much at all! However, I do...

This was my final week working at the pre-school before we close for the summer holidays! We celebrated by getting the soft shapes out for the children to play with and we all had cake. Now I can look forward to an amazing 6 weeks off to spend...

This week at work has been crazy as both managers have been off! Sometimes life takes over (as it does for us all, occasionally) but it’s meant the rest of us pulling together to get school transitions and last minute paperwork done, as well as...

My week started with 3 poorly children at home, so no work for me and no chance of getting any coursework done! I was back to work on Wednesday and it’s flown by since. I’ve been doing my children’s tracker forms to monitor their progress and...

This week has been quite emotionally exhausting for me! In my Child Development coursework, we were asked to write about transitions (like when children go to school) and some examples of transitions that not everyone goes through. This got me...

This week engineers have been carrying out building work on my road, which means the internet has been crashing. Therefore, my well-intentioned plans to do lots of research for my next unit on child development sadly haven’t materialised. But...

After a lovely sunny half term in Weymouth with my family, it was back to work and routine. Work's been busy this week with lots of inductions and prospective parents looking around for September. I managed to get up to date with all my key...

This week was another busy one for me! I went on a safeguarding course on Wednesday, which was my first one. Staff have to do refresher training on this every year. I found it really informative and got a lot out of it – although it also...

Finally managed to get my coursework up to date and it’s been marked – all good and now I’m on to the next bit, thank goodness, which is about Duty of Care! I’ve promised myself I will stay on track with it now and, with the lighter evenings, my...

My husband has been in recovery from an operation he had last week. I had hoped he’d be on his feet by now, but unfortunately I’m still getting up in the night to give him painkillers. Trying to care for him whilst working full time and managing...

This week has been hectic, to say the least! My husband had an operation yesterday so the pre-school allowed me to take the week off. I would normally work half days on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, as well as full days on Tuesday and Thursday....

First day back after Easter - the alarm’s going off, it’s 5.45am! I haven’t seen that time of day in two weeks. We’re up and dressed ready for the day ahead when it suddenly occurs to me that I haven’t even opened my laptop for the whole half...

Nothing could have prepared me for the amazing reactions and responses I received from the parents.  After a deep breath and my first handshake, I just gave it my all and before I knew it I was off, in teacher mode, confidently talking parents...