CO Kids Nursery Practitioner Commitment Award
Nursery Practitioners aren’t often on Linked in. Instead they are busy educating, entertaining and caring on a day, providing essential support to Mums and Dads so that they can manage all that life is with a young family.
Practitioners deserve huge respect and we can’t help but celebrate their fantastic work.
Our team of photographers meet with hundreds if not thousands of Nursery Practitioners on a year as we take children’s photography in nursery gardens across England.
Nursery Practitioners educate, entertain and ensure care for children on a day and as a result a family gets more of a chance to live the life they want to. Many of our team are Mums and Dads to children, quite simply we are huge fans. Some Mums and Dads get to choose a job or remain in a career because of their Nursery Practitioner, some get to attend an event, keep themselves fit or simply put…manage life just that little bit more easily. Powerful stuff.
There’s so many recruitment adverts out there advertising for Nursery Practitioners that you could be fooled into thinking that no one wants to be a Nursery Practitioner. But they do and we get to meet some cracking ones out there.
This month we launch our CO Kids “Nursery Practitioner Commitment Award” where we celebrate some incredible Nursery Practitioners that we meet as we photograph in nurseries across England, and our first award goes to “Nanny Sam” from Meadowview Day Nursery, Milton Keynes.
Why Sam?
A child one day referred to Sam, who works in the PreSchool room at Meadowview Day Nursery as Nanny, thinking of his real life Nanny (Grandma), by mistake.
Indeed many Nursery Practitioners build insanely beautiful relationships with the children they care for and it’s no wonder Practitioners seem like family to some children. How completely wonderful to be so respected by the children and to play such an important role in a young persons life that you are actually referred by them as family!
After a giggle at the time and many months later, the name has stuck and now all 30 plus preschoolers on a day lovingly refer to Sam as their Nanny Sam .
Sam loves the affectionate term that the children have given her and we all had another good giggle when I asked if I could capture her VIP status on camera when we visited for children photography earlier this year. Here she is, a committed and awesome Nursery Practitioner.
As Sarah Steel, chair of a national Day Nurseries Association wrote in Nursery World earlier this year “the people who work with children have the biggest impact on their development, they are the key to our practice, and they must feel truly valued and rewarded.”
Congratulations Nanny Sam!
