Celebrating Kids Planet’s Apprentices

Four aspiring apprentices at Kids Planet have now received their prizes for winning their ‘Apprentice of the Year’ awards for 2021. The celebrated Apprentices all received a giant cheque with the prize of £250, and are from Kids Planet settings Hoylake, Trafford City, Southport and Ainsdale.

Gill Mason, Head of the Kids Planet Training Academy, said: “Apprentices are an excellent route into employment and bring a wealth of talent to Kids planet Day Nurseries. Through these Apprentice Awards, our Academy wanted to recognise and celebrate our outstanding Early Years apprentices journey’s across all ages and levels. It was a difficult job to choose from the many truly wonderful nominations so I’d like to say a huge congratulations to our winners.”

 

Apprentice of the Year winners:

Outstanding Contribution

Hannah Dedenscuck – Kids Planet Hoylake

Hannah has worked tirelessly throughout the time she has been on her apprenticeship, and has become an invaluable member of the Preschool team.

Rising Star

Elisha Lea – Kids Planet Southport

Elishia is a very confident and knowledgeable practitioner and demonstrates a good understanding of the children she supports. Elishia has recently stepped up in the absence of her room leader, showing her ability in the role, and received a special mention from Ofsted.

Resilience

Jessica Williams – Kids Allowed TraffordCity

Jessica started the apprenticeship at 16 and focused on becoming a strong integral team member. Jessica’s manager always praises her amazing contribution as a team member and practitioner and has also highlighted how Jessica’s confidence has developed greatly.

Newcomer of the Year

Hannah Wilkinson – Kids Planet Poulton

She is so enthusiastic and really wants to do well and very focused which is lovely to see in a young apprentice. She is very particular and very aware that she is a role model to the children and other young apprentices. She is dedicated to her role, the nursery and the children and families.

 

Kids Planet Training Academy was launched in 2018 and has purpose-built premises situated in Knutsford, Cheshire, as well as satellite centres across the North West. Please email training@kidsplanetdaynurseries.co.uk to find out more.