Childcare options:
- 2/3/4-hour EYFS-compliant childcare sessions during school hours or after school. For the latter, pickup is Shire Oak Primary Tuesday and Thursday and Meanwood Primary Wednesday. A major focus is local outings to investigate our surroundings, interact with the inhabitants, and generally fool around. Home time to feature books, games, live music sessions and excellent cooking. Very comfortable in English, Dutch and Spanish. Screen- and car-free. Funded hours may be available.
- Short Saturday morning sessions for the Kazookestra – kazoos, singing, marching, jokes and such for primary-age children. A tribute to, amongst others, the northeast’s traditional kazoo bands (brass instruments were expensive), Nino Rota’s band music for Federico Fellini, old-school New Orleans second line, and carnivalesque bands like the Stroat Ensemble. Rehearsal and gig schedule.
- Holiday club Fridays. Several vacancies for summer 2025.
- Your early educator’s relevant experience/qualifications include Ofsted registration (June 2025), enhanced DBS (2025), paediatric first aid certificate (2025), childminding diploma (Hackney Council Early Years Service, 2021); generally music-focussed formal and informal educational settings, including Montessori in England, teenage SEND and 6th form in the Netherlands, and primary and tertiary in Spain.
- Policies/legal info/FAQs to follow.
FAQs:
- Contacts.
- Place-People-Play has nothing to do with an ancient Sport England programme, but is instead a cheeky hat-tip to the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas’s Knowledge and Human Interests (1968) and its posited three common domains of human interest.
- The methodology instilled in PPP is expressed by the acronym OAK, a tribute to our local wapentake, where O is Observe, A is Analyse, and K is a word beginning with K – possibly Kapow or Kazoo, but certainly not Kirsch.
- Profile, principally musical, but also including my conventional career. I currently look after children several times a week for the legal pre-registration limit of two hours. Previous experience includes a brief period doing Montessori and primary, and part-time special needs work with Dutch teens. I’m doing this because I’ve enjoyed caring for our now 5-year-old (whose interests obviously remain paramount). Here’s a stop-motion experiment with her, aged 4¼, for which she did the script, scenography and still photography, while I made the slideshow and added the Comedian Harmonists and subtitles: