Oh yeah, the smiley one in the Tiggers is fantastic. They should promote her I think!!
The scowly one in the Kangas is underneath lovely. She used to work in the baby room and had less responsibilty and more support in there as she was part of a bigger team. She was really adorable then, I sometimes wonder if she would/should move back if a position came free....
The older one in the Owls is currently key worker for one of my DTs and has been really great. Caring, kind and interested. I shouldn't imagine you will have any worries with her.
I find the room works really well esp when the loud one with the long brown hair (name begins with L) is running the show. She has an excellent balance of daft, caring, funny and stern when needed (like when someone is drawing all over your child). She was keyworked many moons ago for my DD1 and I have used her once for daytime babysitting as a trial. It worked really well.
The other small thing that is niggling at me is that at pickup a few weeks ago, one of the mums was also picking up......they couldn't find her daughter. They did find her, in the room next to the loo, with a keyworker reading a story but it made me wonder why no-one knew or missed her. Then today, the same thing happened as I was collecting. They were doing a head count outside before returning in, and the numbers didn't work. I knew one little boy was upstairs with a keyworker because I had just been there.....but they had no idea. As I left, they were in the process of finding out that is where he was and the relief on their faces was obvious. This is one of the reasons I said no to the summer trip, 40 miles up the road.
And I will be finding time to list all of my concerns in my own head and express them as simply and eloquently as I can. I don't want to moan, it is a good nursery but all of these little things can start to let a standard slip and thats when accidents happen.
Right. I have two in bed and one finishing homework....one chapter of Enid Blyton to read her and then maybe a glass of wine