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THE FACE OF FUN FROGS

My name is Naomi Richardson (formally Acton) I am a mother of 6 children ranging from 21 years to 1 year old and having lived in Wilmslow for 32 years I now live with my partner and family in Bollington.

I had my first experiences in working in the childcare sector in the summer of 1999 when I joined a local nursery business as an apprentice, working for this company for many years I worked my way up to a fully qualified room supervisor within the setting.

After taking a short time out of the setting environment to work on a more personal basis with families I moved on to be Nursery Manager of a local Wilmslow Day Nursery, after several happy years of working in the setting I decided I wanted to gain more experience with a mixed diversity of families.

To gain this experience I was nursery manager of a Day Nursery in Macclesfield. In this setting, I worked closely with families that had a wide range of different support needs and backgrounds.

BODHI BABIES

Naomi is also the founder of Bodhi Babies

Yoga and Massage classes, so come

and discover some of the benefits.

She provides many styles of classes from

home visits to one 2 one services and

hold group classes at her nursery

regularly throughout the year.

In the summer of 2007, I was working privately to support local families when I was approached and informed by a local headteacher that some potential premises were becoming available for tender to provide a local Day Nursery. Taking this opportunity I was successful and in September 2007 opened Fun Frogs Day Nursery Ltd.

Fun Frogs is now in its 10th successful year of providing childcare to children within the Cheshire East area from ages 3months to 11 years.

Over my nearly 20 years in childcare I have gained a lot of experience in working and communicating with other professionals having worked alongside Ofsted, Cheshire east children’s & family workers, support workers, social workers, speech therapists, child physiologists, health visitors, OT, CDC, psychotherapists and specialist nurses to name a few. I have also worked with children with all different levels of SEN including none mobile & non-verbal children carrying out their assessments leading to Education health plans being put in place. I have also learnt effective ways of communicating with children and parents with English as an additional language and pride myself on inclusion of all children and families regardless of cultural or religious backgrounds.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIANCE

My knowledge and hands-on experience of working with families with CAF, CIN, CFC statements have grown over the past 2years, I have received training and actively written and prepared PEP`s for families, been an active member of a core group and attended and contributed to review meetings.

I have gained many qualifications and I’m always looking to improve my practice. I am currently coming to the end of my newest achievement of a Level 4 diploma in social care with children and families to enhance my work knowledge when working and supporting families within the setting and maybe in the future to work in the social care sector.

I have many achievements in which I am very proud and love to help make a difference; one of my proud achievements is my qualification to deliver an awareness of sexual exploitation to children and young adults within schools and youth groups on behalf of CEOP. (child exploitation online protection ) I feel this is a very important message that needs to be more widely shared.

Other qualifications I benefit from are as follows;

 

  • Recent Paediatric First Aid

  • Certified training in Helping Hands sign language communication 

  • BTEC L3 in management

  • Functional Skills L2 in maths, English & ICT

  • L2 Qualification in Early Years & Education

  • L3 Qualification in Early Years & Education

  • L2 in the new food allergy awareness law

  • L2 award in food safety in catering

  • Certified Training in Developing communication skills in young children

  • Certified training on autistic spectrum disorder awareness

  • Certified training on promoting positive behaviour 

  • Certified training on disability discrimination

  • Certified training on the role of a Senco

  • Certified training on “every child's a talker”

  • Certified training in children’s yoga & massage

  • Certified training on safeguarding children basic awareness

  • Certified CAF user training

  • LSCB intermediate safeguarding training

  • LSCB digital safeguarding training

  • LSCB Disabled children & child protection training

  • Advanced safeguarding children

  • Certified training on Working with issues of child neglect

  • Certified training on child exploitation

  • Certified training on parental substance misuse

  • Certified training on domestic violence and abuse

  • L1 in responding to domestic abuse

  • Certified training in hand hygiene

  • Certified training in health and safety

  • Certified training in the use of fire extinguishers

  • Certified training in Manual handing

  • Certified training in oral health promotion

 

I also have a full qualification in social work with children and families.

 

Fully qualified and insured to teach children’s yoga and baby massage.

 

In my view the biggest qualification I have is not printed on a piece of paper it is that of the love, passion and dedication I have for my work and the enjoyment I get in seeing children and young adults develop and grow. The support I can show and give families when needed and offering a high standard of service and early years of education to the community.

 

My newest venture is being the founder of Bodhi Babies yoga and massage. This is a new business set up by myself offering Yoga, and Mindfulness in children and baby massage classes currently ran from Yoga life studio in Wilmslow.

 

I have a sound understanding of the recent children’s act.

I hold a clear DBS check.

I hold a clean UK British driving licence and passport and have a legal right to work within the UK

I pride myself in my understanding and need to safeguard children.

I understand the need and always remain professional both in and out of my work, and always follow confidentiality polices within my practice.   

Fun Frogs Day Nursery

 

193 Wilmslow Rd, Handforth, Wilmslow, SK9 3JX

100 Altrincham Rd, Wilmslow SK9 5NQ

email: funfrogsnursery@gmail.com

Tel: 01625 441798 

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