Sara

My Summary

My Experience

I have more than 7 years of experience with children in both recreational and academic environments.

My first experience was volunteering with a friend at my primary school preparing recreational activities for younger children. I enjoyed it so much that in my adolescence, I got my first job in childcare as an au pair in Ireland when I was 17 and in Switzerland when I was 19. In the first experience, I took care of Laura and Tom aged 6 and 8 for 2 months. In Chateau D'Oex (Switzerland) I lived with an Italian family, looking after Luca, an 8-year-old boy. My tasks in both experiences entailed looking after them, cooking sometimes, taking them to school and picking them up, helping them with homework, playing with them and teaching them a bit of Spanish.

In addition, through the Leisure Activity Leader Training supplied by the Spanish Red Cross, I gained an insight into what working with children from diverse ages and backgrounds involves. As an activity leader in various camps in Spain and Italy throughout the past 5 years, I have been building up more experience: I have created several games and managed groups with conflictive behaviour issues. These camps I worked with required monitors to be on-site and entertain kids for long, sometimes 18-hour days. As a result, I learned to maintain an all-day-energetic and optimistic attitude even through challenging moments.

During my time abroad when I was studying and/or working I've had many childcare-related part-time jobs on the side. I have worked as a tutor in Spain, Germany and Italy teaching Spanish and English to different kids aged from 6 to 13 years old. I have also worked as a nanny in these countries for a few hours in the afternoon and the evening two/three days per week.

In Spain and Germany, I worked as an after-school teacher. I would give lessons to beginners aged 6-9 in English in Madrid. I worked in a Schülehilfe in Oldenburg assisting children with their homework and preparation for exams for the subjects of Spanish, English and French.

More recently, in these last 2 years, I've been working as a Spanish teaching assistant first in Germany in a Gymnasium- Berufschüle and last year in London at Hampton School. Both jobs were full time and my tasks included working with individuals and small groups for Spanish conversation and the preparation of oral topics. I also assisted teachers with their day-to-day classroom work and with departmental administrative tasks.
Additionally, at Hampton school, I was in charge of running language clubs and supporting pupils in preparing for language competitions such as national Spanish debates.

Nanny ethos
I'm the loving, bubbly and creative type of nanny! I'm the one who will be always down to play any board/card games or play outside, give loads of hugs and speak with your children in different languages.

In my opinion, kids need to do activities that entail more than watching TV or playing video games. It is hard to find the time sometimes. That's why I always try to come up with fun games indoors or outdoors depending on the age. Some of the classics are floor is lava, hide and seek, categories, pictionary, uno and jenga. However, there's loads of activities such as easy diy and crafts (I've learned some in summer camps), cooking or playing sports outside. I am also up for taking them to cultural activities such as museums and workshops. I recently saw there are some workshops for children in Arnolfini galleries.

In addition, homework won't be an issue since I've been a tutor for more than 5 years now. I'm glad to help them with any subject!

I've been working in childcare abroad and that's why I have a better intercultural understanding as well as I can speak fluently more languages than English such as Spanish, Italian, French (medium level) and a tiny bit of German.

My Qualifications

Bachelor in Translation and Interpreting (English, German, Italian)
Summer Camp Activity Leader by Spanish Red Cross
First Aid Training by Spanish Red Cross
Safeguarding Training

My Availability

I'm free most afternoons and evenings from 16:00 to 21:00-22:00.

My Fees

• Babysitting from £15.00 per hour