Nursery Nurses/ Early Years Educators needed for award-winning Nursery

Reflections Nursery & Forest School in Worthing, West Sussex is looking for nursery staff with experience in the early years. Reflections has a different approach to early years education and was awarded Nursery World UK Nursery of the Year in 2009/10 (the only time we’ve ever entered) and received an ‘Outstanding’ from Ofsted in 2010.  

Salaries range from £13,500 to £15,000pa or more depending upon experience and qualifications and we offer a comprehensive professional development programme, which includes developing an understanding of the Reggio Approach.

If you have an NVQ Level 3 or higher qualification and a positive, committed approach, please e-mail your CV with a short covering letter to: martin@reflectionsnurseries.co.uk

 

Or by post to Martin Pace, Director, Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Westerfields House, 54 Richmond Road, Worthing, BN11 1PS.

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Reflections Professional Development Day: 27th April 2013

Project-based Learning: Indoors & Outdoors

A Professional Development Day focussing on project work at Reflections Nursery & Forest School, with reference to the Reggio Emilia Approach.

Date: Saturday 27th April 2013, from 10.00am until 3.30pm 

Venue: Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing 

Cost:  £60 (Full-time Students £30) including refreshments & lunch

What is project-based learning and how can we best support it in the early years? How do we support project-based learning indoors and outdoors?  

Martin Pace, Director of Reflections; Yvonne Barr, Nursery Manager; Teresa Grimaldi, Atelierista and Ann Mackie an independent consultant from Creative Explorers will be supported by other Reflections educators to give presentations and workshops drawing on six years of children’s learning at Reflections Nursery, Worthing and the Reggio Approach.

Participants:

We welcome registrations from all those working in the area of early childhood education and on creative arts/education projects with young children. 

Programme

9.30am

Registration at Reflections Nursery, Worthing

9.45am

A guided tour of the nursery with a Reflections’ educator

11.15am

Presentation, ‘Project-Based Learning at Reflections – the work of Reflections Nursery and inspiration from the Reggio Approach’ - Martin Pace & senior educators 

12.45pm Lunch at the nursery

Concurrent Workshops to choose from:

1.45 - 2.30pm

Workshop 1:  Projects in the outdoors – Martin Pace

1.45 - 2.30pm

Workshop 2:   The relationship between experiences & the environment and reflective dialogue to sustain long-term projects. Ann Mackie from Creative Explorers.

2.30 - 3.30pm

Free time to walk around Reflections Nursery

Call 01903 208208 and ask for Susan or e-mail susan@reflectionsnurseries.co.uk

 

Atelierista (artist working with children) Required

Reflections Nursery is recruiting a full-time Atelierista (artist working with children). Our current Atelierista, Angela Chick is leaving to pursue her artistic enterprises and we wish her well.   We are now looking for someone with a creative background and experience of working with young children. If you are interested in applying please contact: martin@reflectionsnurseries.co.uk
    

Professional Development Day - 20th October 2012

Children Creativity & Outdoor Learning

A Professional Development Day focussing on the work of Reflections Nursery, with reference to the Reggio Emilia Approach.

Date: Saturday 20th October 2012, from 10.00am until 3.30pm

Venue: Reflections Nursery, Worthing

Cost:  £60 (Full-time Students £30) including refreshments & lunch 

What is creativity and what is its significance for young children? How can we best support creativity in children? What is the role of the outdoors in supporting creativity?

Martin Pace, Director of Reflections, along with Angela Chick, Senior Atelierista and Yvonne Barr, Nursery Manager will be supported by other Reflections educators to give presentations and workshops drawing on six years of children’s learning at Reflections Nursery, Worthing and the Reggio Approach.

Participants:

We welcome registrations from all those working in the area of early childhood education and on creative arts/education projects with young children. 

Programme:

- Registration at Reflections Nursery, Worthing

- A guided tour of the nursery with a Reflections’ educator

- Presentation, ‘Children, Creativity and Outdoor Learning – the work of Reflections Nursery and inspiration from the Reggio Approach’ - Martin Pace & senior educators

- Lunch

- Concurrent Workshops to choose from:

Workshop 1:  Children learning in the outdoors – Martin Pace

Workshop 2:  The Atelier supporting children’s creativity – Angela Chick & Yvonne Barr

-  Free time to walk around Reflections Nursery

Please contact susan@reflectionsnurseries.co.uk  for further details.

Dead Beetle Sketch

Dead Beetle: Atelier Discussion: 12^th July 2012

Anna (3yrs 6 mths); Leo (3yrs 10 mths); Jem (4yrs 0 mths); Evie R. (4yrs 1mth); Esther (4yrs 4 mths); Lewis (3yrs 4 mths); Thomas (4yrs 5mths)

The Thursday Forest School group were leaving for the woodland and noticed a dead stag beetle on the stairs leading to the minibus. Leo and Jem believed this was a cockroach that had escaped from the Atelier (we have Madagascan Giant Hissing Cockroaches in our Atelier). On their return from Forest School, Leo came into the Atelier and told Angela he saw one of the cockroaches that escaped. He looked in to the cockroach tank to see if it had returned.  Leo saw some of the cockroaches sleeping and asked, “Are they dead?”

“There’s one that’s dead that is a baby one. It’s so small and dead but it’s not bone yet” Anna

“Where’s it gone?” Leo

“It’s gone somewhere different.” Anna

“Goes somewhere else.” Jem

“Maybe someone carries it away?” Anna

“If we give the cockroach over there which is dead some water then it might come back again” Evie R. (Referring to the dead stag beetle in a petri dish in the display case)

“When you die you never come back and you will cry because you will never never never never never never never never never never never see your mummy.” Esther

We get the tools to experiment with water and the dead stag beetle which had been in the display case.

“It will take 13 drops!” Evie R.

We count together.

“It won’t come back to life.” Jem

“When the cockroaches are dead, we can put water on them and it moves them back to life.” Esther

“He might float, won’t he?” Jem

“He won’t float or fly, he’ll go up in the sky.” Esther

“It is hard, why is he hard?” Anna

“Because we put water on it, he’s gone all coldy and shrivelled up” Evie R.

“He’s moving! He’s moving!” The children shout as the water pours in and the beetle spins around.

“No, he’s floating!” Jem

“He’s walking!” Evie R.

“He’s not alive…” Lewis (getting upset)

“When he’s alive he might be a cockroach” Evie R.

“He’s got dead legs” Evie L.

“He’s not going to fly ever again” Anna frowns and looks down at the table

“He’s going to get really big and fat with all that water” Anna

“We should leave it and wait” Evie R.

“How long is it going to take?” Jem

Thomas joins the group “Is it the beetle that we saw when we went to Forest School?  Is he dead because he doesn’t like the rain?” Thomas

The beetle is now in a jar in water on the shelf in the Atelier. We will be checking regularly for any changes...