Maria Barnes

Working with the Montessori materials and presenting them to children

Following a Montessori 3 hour work cycle

Working in an indoor and outdoor classroom

working with children ages 1-2, 2-3 and 3-6 in Montessori environments.

Overlooking the curriculum

Mentoring educators about the Montessori Pedagogy

Reconciliation Action Plan Officer - initiated the RAP for the centre.

• Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
• Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Built strong, trusting relationships with the children, families and all staff members.
• Covered Lunch breaks and curriculum planning time during the hours of 9am and 2:30pm.
• Setting up experiences for the children in line with the current curriculum in the rooms.
• Assisting children during rest times
• Preparing children for routines and transitions such as meal times, sleep times and story time.
• Actively supervising the children at all times.
• Performing cleaning duties for each room as required and ensuring high quality hygiene is maintained at all times.

• Managed day-to-day business operations.
• Enhanced operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts and costs.
• Run my own family day care
• Designed curriculum, cycle of planning, developmental milestones and portfolios all observations for all enrolled children.
• Created open ended learning environments indoors and outdoors
• Always compliant during checks from Scheme
• Generated invoices and direct debits for families - Used Hubworks.

• Directed day-to-day operations of educational program and mentored educators regarding QA1 and child development.
• Developed the cycle of planning for the service across 5 rooms / age groups.
• Ensured smooth day to day operations of the rooms and mentoring on and off the floor
• Participated in meetings with other Educational leaders to further knowledge and experience
• Organized the atelier/art rooms and mentored staff about the importance of an art space for the children (Reggio orientated).
• Developed curriculum and plans/observations to achieve objectives of each room.
• Delivered professional development training to staff members / mentored them
• Run staff meetings with educators and team
• Created Risk assessments for the service
• Created and updated the QIP of the service
• Organized and booked incursions and excursions for all rooms/age groups
• Worked as a team with the centre director and centre administrator to complete tasks to do with families, the community and the children
• Used an online platform to communicate with families and evaluated all shared stories, observations for all children across the service.
• Evaluated programs and monitored implementation and compliance with regulations to achieve objectives.
• Wrote and planned staff meetings each month
• Run parent information nights about maters that the families were interested in
• Began sustainability projects throughout the service including native plants planting, compost bins, worm farms and other
• Began a Reconciliation Action Plan for the service
• Found cultural Identity of the service
• Contributed to decisions about the service and operations alongside the centre director
• In charge of the service in the absence of centre director

• As the baby room leader, I am motivating and supporting a team of 5 lovely ladies. We all work together to provide high quality care and standards for our babies.
• I am creating the curriculum based on the children's interests, and the Jewish Holidays of the year. In partnership with the families and in line with the EYLF, we build a high quality program based on reflection and continuous improvement.
• Daily opening of the service
• Verbal daily communication with our families regarding each babies routines, changes in sleep, meals and support they need to ensure every child is cared for to the best of our ability
• I am creating checklists for my room such as Daily UV checklists, Daily safety checklists, Daily cleaning schedules and Daily 10 minute sleep checks for the babies room.
• I have created procedures for handling foods, bottle prep, cleanliness and marine animals to ensure all staff are performing best practice. I created all these myself.
• I tick all babies attendance or absence on the roll daily
• I work closely with my managers to ensure we have open communication regarding our learning environment and babies needs.
• I am making sure each babies rights are respected and every baby is protected from any sort of harm whilst in my teams care.
• I am daily motivating my team to perform and provide high quality standards within the room. We all communicate openly and honestly, and I am making sure their learning journey and training is current and pleasant.
• I consider building relationships with the children is paramount and adequate time is spent with all babies daily, and they all feel acknowledged, seen and respected.
• I reflect on our program and practice daily on the online platform we use at the service.
• I ensure the babies basic needs and more are met.
• I plan and execute meaningful, rich daily play experiences for the babies in our care with the help of my team.
• I organize and set up the learning environments with purpose and allow it to act as the third teacher during everyday learning.
• I ensure our equipment and environment is free of hazards, clean and in good repair by conducting monthly Audits. I then discuss them with management to action on any potential hazard I have identified.

• Ensuring a safe and age appropriate environment for the Children
• Reviewing Routines and Transitions accordingly to suit the children’s needs
• Making changes in the learning environment and educating techniques to ensure inclusivity towards all children in my care
• Working as a team with assisting staff and guiding them daily with respect and compassion to bring out our best performance and positive energy
• Teaching Yoga every morning to children and educators
• Creating emotional support and behavior support plans for children with challenging behaviors and special needs
• Creating transition forms to support children transition to different rooms according to their age
• Daily checklist completion and daily attendance
• Provide a clean and safe indoor and outdoor environment for children
• Discuss with owner of the service through weekly meetings how to make necessary changes that will benefit children and staff
• Forming strong relationships with children and their families
• Closing and opening of the service
• Participating in monthly drills as necessary
• Providing care for pets (fish in particular)
• Run daily educational mat sessions
• Daily planning and implementing play experiences and play areas to support all children in our care drawn from their interests
• Creation of daily diary to keep all team members in the loop of what is happening every day in our room/ pass messages effectively throughout the team
• Reggio Emilia inspired methods to help children find their sense of autonomy and self help skills
• Contributing to the program by writing learning stories, writing an every day diary, and taking pictures
• Creating Children's individual portfolios
• Ensuring a safe and age appropriate environment for the children
• Following Reggio Emilia approach
• Very good knowledge of EYLF and NQS
• Current Working with Children check
• Providing medication when needed/Following action plans when needed
• Forming and maintaining safe and reciprocal relationships with the children and families
• Working in partnership with the families
• Planning and setting up experiences and activities to inspire play
• Familiar with nappy change and toilet training techniques
• Participating in planning, creating and implementing an Exceeding educational program
• Creating children’s individual portfolios
• Daily marking of the sign in and out sheet from parents/attendances
• Observing and supervising the children on a daily basis
• Creating Monthly reports for families

• Ensuring a safe and age appropriate environment for the children
• Following Reggio Emilia approach
• Very good knowledge of EYLF and NQS
• Contributing in updating and reviewing centers policies, procedures and QIP
• Providing a high quality and educational Environment for the children
• Providing high quality care for the children
• Providing a hygienic and clean environment for the children
• Daily role of Supervising officer
• Current Working with Children check
• Providing medication when needed/Following action plans when needed
• Experience in working with children with special needs-practicing full inclusion
• Taking calls and parent enquiries
• Giving tours of the service to new families and children
• Forming and maintaining safe and reciprocal relationships with the children and families
• Working in partnership with the families
• Running monthly excursions aligned with the monthly program
• Planning and setting up experiences and activities to inspire play
• Maintaining a sustainable environment and practice, looking after our pets, and daily care for our compost bin and arrangement of scraps/worm farms
• Working as a team with all other team members and management
• Serving the children their meals in a safe and hygienic manner promoting self help skills
• Setting up the sleep room daily for children from 2-4 years of age according to their individual needs to a high standard
• Familiar with nappy change and toilet training techniques
• Participating in planning, creating and implementing an Exceeding educational program
• Creating children’s individual portfolios
• Daily marking of the sign in and out sheet from parents/attendances
• Running yearly Drills and evaluating of those
• Observing and supervising the children on a daily basis
• Participating in the creation of Monthly Newsletters
• Teaching the Children and staff members Yoga on a daily basis
• Staying in touch with the community by planning excursions to local cafes, shops and exploring map of Melville with the children

• Room leader in the Toddler room
• Designing the program for the toddler room, creating portfolios for the full class and running the full cycle of observations/program
• Room leader in the kindy room
• Designing the program for the Kindy room, creating portfolios for the full class and running the full cycle of observations/program
• Organizing the children’s meals
• Taking daily attendance
• Responsible for setting and organizing a high quality and age appropriate environment for the children
• Taking calls and parent enquiries
• Keep environment clean and aesthetically pleasing
• Working with children with special needs
• Running mat sessions with the children
• Supervising officer of the whole service
• Supervising officer and educational leader of Before and After School program
• Handling office duties- printing statements for clients and organizing payments and fees in the system
• Maintaining a safe environment- physically and mentally
• Creating and maintaining the service’s program
• Observing the children thoroughly and in a professional manner using technology
• Making children’s portfolios
• Organizing and running parent-teacher meetings to discuss the children’s progress
• Taking children to approved and organized excursions
• Running the vacation care program whilst at the OSCH service
• Driving the bus – drop offs and pick-ups from and to school

• Strong communication skills
• Product knowledge
• Merchandising
• Creation of advertisements and responsible for marketing campaigns
• Build new customer relationships and maintain existing clients
• Creation of database for managing a marketing campaign
• Personal assistant to the director which developed strong leadership and communication skills to ensure smooth business operation from day to day
• Phone based sales
• Cold Calling
• New Business development