Is Theodora Nkemelu-Ashby a real person

No. She is invented for this page, and so are Willowgate Day Nursery and Bramcote Meadow Nursery. The figures show a shape and describe no real child or setting.

What does a nursery manager check first

Qualification level and whether the certificates are in date. Paediatric first aid, safeguarding and food hygiene with years beside them answer that before the experience is read.

How should key children be described

As a group size with what you did for them. A key group of eight, 200 observations a term and 48 progress summaries a year describes the work and names nobody.

What did the checker score it

99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 2 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 97 × 40% for content, on 459 readable words. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied.

Which design is this rendered in

Minimal, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. The page named Vellum until 2026-09-14, when the document was moved. The eight were chosen from a measurement taken that day: each exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.

Example · Early years

A free early years practitioner résumé example, key children and all

One complete childcare worker résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13 · updated 2026-09-25

— room size, key group, certificates in date.

The early years practitioner example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Minimal design: name, summary, three dated roles with five lines under each, education, skills and certificates — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Minimal design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

Early years work is highly regulated, closely recorded and almost always described on a page in the vaguest possible terms. This example is written out in full so you can read a specific version, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser stores. The candidate is invented.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Theodora Nkemelu-Ashby
Early Years Practitioner
Nottingham, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 115 496 0387

Summary
Level 3 early years practitioner with eight years in nurseries, working on key children, observations and the settling that decides a family's first month. Leads a toddler room of 24 children and 5 staff.

Experience

Room Leader, Toddlers · Willowgate Day Nursery, Nottingham · 2022 to present

Led a toddler room of 24 children and 5 staff, and carried a personal key group of 8 children through the year.
Completed 200 observations a term and wrote 48 progress reports a year that every family read before the parent meeting.
Settled 30 new starters with a settling plan of 2 weeks agreed with each family, and kept every one of them attending after a month.
Mentored 4 apprentices through their level 2 and level 3 qualifications, and all 4 passed within 18 months of starting.
Planned 3 activities a day against the early years framework and recorded 95% of them against a named developmental goal.

Early Years Practitioner · Bramcote Meadow Nursery, Derby · 2019 to 2022

Covered baby and pre-school rooms of 40 children a day alongside 6 staff, and held the required ratios through every lunch break.
Supported 6 children with additional needs alongside the area team and reviewed each plan with parents every 12 weeks of the year.
Recorded 150 observations a term across two rooms and used them to plan the next week for each key child.
Ran the daily doorstep routine for 8 staff and 40 families, and cut the queue at the door to under 10 minutes.
Prepared 60 learning files a year for families and completed every one before the child moved into the next room.

Nursery Assistant · Bramcote Meadow Nursery, Derby · 2017 to 2019

Cared for 12 children a day in the baby room and recorded every sleep and feed entry across 5 shifts a week.
Prepared meals and snacks each day against the allergy list in 12 individual files and recorded every serving for the family.
Completed the level 3 diploma alongside 5 shifts a week and finished all 14 units within the agreed 2 years.
Set up 3 activity areas every morning before the room opened and reset them for 24 children after lunch across 5 shifts a week.
Passed safeguarding, paediatric first aid and food hygiene courses within 6 months and applied each of them across 5 shifts a week.

Education
Level 3 Diploma in Early Years Education and Care · Sherwood Rise College, Nottingham · 2017 to 2019

Skills
early years framework, key person approach, observation and assessment, settling in, safeguarding, paediatric first aid, additional needs support, family partnership, activity planning, apprentice mentoring

Languages
English · native

Certifications
Paediatric first aid · 2025
Safeguarding level 3 · 2024
Food hygiene level 2 · 2024

Certificates first, then the room

Paediatric first aid, safeguarding at level 3 and food hygiene, each with a year. A nursery manager checks those before anything else, because a setting cannot put an uncertificated practitioner on ratio tomorrow morning.

Then the room: 24 children and five staff, with a key group of eight. Ratio, room age band and key group size tell a manager exactly where this person fits in their own building. Counts like those are why all fifteen lines here carry a number the engine can read.

Observations, summaries, settling

Two hundred observations a term. Forty-eight progress summaries a year written for families. Thirty children settled with a two-week plan agreed with each family. Those describe the recorded work, the family-facing work and the hardest part of the job, and none of them names a child.

Mentoring four apprentices through level 2 and level 3 is the seniority line. In a sector with constant turnover, a practitioner who brings people through their qualifications is worth keeping.

Skills for a childcare worker résumé, grouped

Theodora's skills group into practice, care and partnership. Practice: early years framework, key person approach, observation and assessment, activity planning. Care: safeguarding, paediatric first aid, additional needs support, settling in. Partnership and team: family partnership, apprentice mentoring. A nursery manager reads safeguarding and the key person approach first.

Childminders and nannies group around their own settings, so rename the groups to fit. In the free builder, groups are optional: rename them, reorder them or switch them off.

From nursery assistant to room leader

A nursery assistant's résumé proves care and routine: children supported, routines kept, training completed. The Bramcote roles start there. A practitioner adds key children, observations and summaries.

A room leader adds the room: ratios, planning, staff and apprentices mentored, families supported through settling. Certificates stay first. The certifications guide covers the format.

How it reads and scores

The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree, 1 language and 10 skills before anything reaches the editor. Here the reading found three dated roles with five achievement lines under each, one qualification, ten distinct skills, one language and all three certificates with their years. The ATS checker scored it 99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 2 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied here, and the five it withheld are one check: bullet tense. The method behind these numbers is written up once, in how our examples are made and checked.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Theodora Nkemelu-Ashby's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — Theodora Nkemelu-Ashby's early years practitioner résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Theodora Nkemelu-Ashby's early years practitioner résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

What this example leaves off

No children's names, no photographs from a setting and no details of any safeguarding concern. A nursery manager reads the absence of those as the first evidence that this practitioner understands the job.

Long lists of short courses are left off too. Three certificates in date, a level 3 qualification and the room evidence carry the page, and a column of half-day training titles pushes all three further down.

What to change for your own

Change the age band and the setting. Baby room, preschool, childminding, out of school clubs and nursery classes in schools all use this shape with different frameworks. Then put in your own room sizes, key group, observation volume and settling work.

Keep every certificate in date and dated on the page. The guide on certifications covers placement, the design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the teaching assistant example, the personal trainer example and the barista example sit beside this one.

Write yours beside it

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Questions

Is Theodora Nkemelu-Ashby a real person: No. She is invented for this page, and so are Willowgate Day Nursery and Bramcote Meadow Nursery. The figures show a shape and describe no real child or setting.
What does a nursery manager check first: Qualification level and whether the certificates are in date. Paediatric first aid, safeguarding and food hygiene with years beside them answer that before the experience is read.
How should key children be described: As a group size with what you did for them. A key group of eight, 200 observations a term and 48 progress summaries a year describes the work and names nobody.
What did the checker score it: 99 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 2 points short and achievement quality 1 point short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 97 × 40% for content, on 459 readable words. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied.
Is settling in worth a line: It is the line a manager will ask about. Thirty children settled with a two-week plan agreed with each family is the part of the job that decides whether a family stays.
Which design is this rendered in: Minimal, one of the eight layouts in the ATS family and one of the 24 ATS-safe designs out of 37. The page named Vellum until 2026-09-14, when the document was moved. The eight were chosen from a measurement taken that day: each exports a PDF whose text layer scores exactly what the pasted text scores, on both test documents, in one column, with the reading order kept and no graphics.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.