Nursery Assistant

The Role of a Nursery Assistant

A nursery assistant is responsible for helping the teacher with activities and duties. This may include helping prepare and set up the nursery for activities, helping children with reading, writing and learning and reporting progress of children to the teacher and their parents/guardians. The children are typically aged up to 5 years old.The roles and responsibilities of a nursery assistant are varied and differ between workplaces but here’s a general overview of the duties you can expect:

• Taking the children on outings to places of interest
• Helping children to develop language and numeracy skills though games
• Arts, music, crafts and cooking
• Making sure that each child is collected by someone known to the nursery
• Performing domestic duties such as preparing snacks and cleaning equipment and toys
• Recording any possible accidents in the official accident book
• Washing and changin...