We are delighted to announce that Kerry Baker has gained her Early Years Professional (EYP)status. She is now the third person in Flying Start to be awarded it.

Kerry joined us in July 2007 as an Arts teacher, starting on projects with after-school children including a memorable and magnificent full-scale camel !! She moved on to lead Art sessions in all 5 of our settings in the west of Cornwall. Kerry quickly demonstarted her commitment and ability as a qualified teacher (BA) and rapidly rose through the ranks to become the manager of Flying Start @ Camborne in September 2008.

She has made great efforts in outdoor activities including utilising her chef's skills following the building of a Scandanavian style forest shelter in Camborne (as can be seen in the photo with her version of flame-grilled corn on the cob). A fabulous Save Our Seas project attracted lots of press attention as Kerry taught the children about their local environment and conservation issues.

Kerry has worked very hard to gain her EYP status and we are very proud of her and her achievements.

Kerry Baker EYP

We are delighted to announce that Kerry Baker has gained her Early Years Professional (EYP)

status. She is now the third person in Flying Start to be awarded it.



Kerry joined us in July 2007, as an Arts teacher starting on ambitious projects with after-school children including the construction of a magnificent full scale camel! She moved on to lead Art sessions in all our 5 centres in the west of Cornwall. Kery quickly demonstrated her commitment and ability as a qualified teacher (BA) and rapidly rose through the ranks to become the manager at Flying Start @ Camborne in July 2008.



She has made great efforts in outdoor activities including utilising her chef's skills in outdoor cooking (see photo for flame-grilled corn on the cob!)

Spanish at Marjon!

The children at Flying Start @ Marjon College are having a story time, and the reader Angela with her son Ali on her lap.

Angela is one of our parents and has a degree in Spanish - she is reading the Crunching , Munching Caterpillar in Spanish.

She also helps with naming and labelling everyday items in Spanish.

Gracias !

Training Day - 16th April

Plans are well in place for our annual Training Day.

This year all the nurseries will close on 16th April and we will gather our full staff team together. This year we will focus on Healthy Eating and we will be based at Cornwall College in Pool in the wonderful lecture theatre.

Chantelle Baron

Flying Start sends its congratulations to Chantelle Baron for gaining her Early Years Practitioner status in March 2010.

She is the second person to achieve this status in Flying Start, ( second only to our proprietor, Sharon Cowburn) though we are awaiting other results........

Chantelle has been with us the whole time we have been in business - 17 years! She has risen to the role of Senior Manager for Training and has completed her degree and now her EYP, largely in her own time though she did get some day releases to college.

She is a highly committed member of staff, regularly completing hundreds of hours of training a year. Not only is she a diligent trainee but also an accomplished trainer. She has been instrumental in the success of TLC, our training division and has over 20 NVQ students at the moment. Chantelle planned the delivery of over 3000 hours of "continuing professional development" for our staff teams last year. In recognition of the success of TLC, we were honoured to win the award for the Outstanding Commitment to Training in the 2010 Excellence in Busines Awards (see photo below!! Chantelle is much more comfortable in the forest with the children than being honoured at a black tie dinner)

In addition to all this, Chantelle leads on our Outdoor and Forest initiatives and is busy implementing ideas from her recent trip to Stockholm. Our Employee of the Year in 2003, we were able to celebrate with her in Milan, on our recent trip for all staff who had over 10 years service with us.

We are very proud of Chantelle and her great achievements!!!

CONGRATULATIONS.....CONGRATULATIONS......CONGRATLUATIONS.....CONGRATUATIONS....

Charlotte

CONGRATULATIONS to Charlotte McConnel who has qualified at Level 3, as part of the Flying Start TLC programme. Charlotte has just returned from maternity leave as little Aalia interrupted her training!

She is pictured here in her Bhangra dance outfit and some of the performance by after school children following her Eastern influence.....

Forest School

A group of pre-school children from Saltash came to join the children from Duchy College at their Forest School session today. Great fun was had by all as the children explored "small", "big" and "GIGANTIC".