Staff
The staff members who make up Rainbow’s End are a strong, proud team. They are all part of the local community and between them, they have many years of experience – first as full time mums and now as their children have become more independent as working mums. Most of their children have attended Rainbow’s pre-school. They hold a variety of qualifications, all have first aid certificates and attend Surrey County Council Workshops regularly in order to keep up to date with their training.
The children are split into three small groups and each group is allocated a Key Person and 2 Assistants. The Key Person has special responsibility to settle the children in to pre-school, liaise with parents and keep records of the child's progress without overshadowing them.
The Key Person Groups are listed below:
| Angie Thomas - Manager | |
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Angie joined as Deputy Manager in January 2004, along with her youngest child and took over as Manager in September 2004. Angie has an NNEB qualification and has a Foundation Degree in Management and Leadership in the Early Years. Previously Angie worked as a Nanny in Surrey, held two teaching assistant posts (at Ewhurst Infant School and St Hilary’s in Godalming), and worked at Daisy Chain Day Nursery in Guildford as a Pre-school Room Leader. Immediately prior to joining Rainbow’s End, she owned and managed Elderslie Nursery School in Ockley for 8 years. |
| "My favourite activity is story time because I love to see the children’s imagination working. They learn so much - and have a great time.” | |
| Linda Fuller - Key Person (Blue Group) | |
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Linda joined in January 2010. She is trained to NVQ Level 3 and is with us 4 mornings each week. Linda runs the "outstanding" COCO's after school club at Ewhurst School and previously she was Manager of Abinger Common Nursery/Pre-School for 9 years. At Abinger she cared for 26 children and managed 9 staff so she has bags of experience and is already proving popular with the children at Rainbow's. |
| Jill Barnett - Assistant (Blue Group) | |
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Jill joined Rainbow’s End in 1995 along with her 3 year old daughter when her son was at infants school. Jill’s strength is with “the boys”. She is great at maintaining their interest when listening to stories or working on letter sounds. Jill holds a Level 2 qualification. As our longest serving member of staff, Jill has seen many changes in Government regulations, particularly in the last five years with the introduction of both Ofsted and Early Years to nursery schools. She remains cheerfully enthusiastic and is adept at dealing with all the new criteria. |
| Sally Anne Marron - Assistant (Blue Group) | |
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Sally Anne joined in 2010. She has a secretarial background and is returning to work having taken a break while her 2 daughters were small. |
| Emily Koscia - Key Person (Purple Group) | |
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Emily joined in 2010. She is a newly qualified primary age teacher with a music degree. A Ewhurst girl, she attended Rainbow's End, Ewhurst Infant school and was Brown Owl for Ewhurst Brownies.
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| Jayne Beecroft - Assistant (Purple Group) | |
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Jayne joined in 2010. She has 3 boys of her own, who all attended Rainbow's End so she already has a good idea of how we work. |
| Catherine Jones - Assistant (Purple Group) | |
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Catherine joined in September 2011. She is returning to work now her daugher is at school. Catherine previously worked for 3 years in a day nursery in the baby and toddler rooms, and more recently has been an active member of the PTA at her daughter's school. |
Alison Mair - Assistant Deputy Manager & Parent Liaison Officer |
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Alison joined us in September 2009. She has been a valuable and active member of the Committee since her son and daughter both joined Rainbow's End in September 2007. Ali has been at home raising her children since 2004, prior to which she travelled the world for 17 years as cabin crew in the airline industry. |
Jessica Cooper - Assistant (Green Group) |
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Jessica joined in 2011. She gave up a nursing career in 2004 to stay at home raising her children. She has two girls who both attended Rainbow's, and regularly helped the staff to cover sickness and study time. |
Alex Newton - Assistant (Green Group) |
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Alex joined in September 2011. She p reviously worked at Holmbury St Mary nursery for a year and is now at Guildford college doing a degree in Early years. |
| Mia Whitney - Administrator | |
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Mia works with us a few afternoons a week, keeping on top of the administration. She is mum to three girls; the eldest was previously at Rainbow's and Mia has been involved with the committee and generally helping out ever since. You may recognise Mia from St Cuthbert Mayne school in Cranleigh where she has worked as Secretary for the past 3 years. |
Jane Seaward - Administrator |
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