“My love for children is expressed through kindness, empathy, and creative, playful expression within an educationally focused, softly structured, emotionally safe environment.”
Creative Education, Mentoring & Enrichment, Confidence Building.
Creative Education, Mentoring & Enrichment, Confidence Building.
Half Term Creative Playshops - Forest Row. Proposed schedule
DATES: Monday 16th, Tuesday 17th, (age 5-7) Thursday 19th February (From age 9 +) 2026
However, I will only go ahead if I have 6 children per day. I can of course go ahead with less children, but the cost to parents would be more.
TIMINGS: 9am-3pm
LOCATION: A private home in Forest Row with a dedicated space for children.
Each day will have a blend of a standalone craft activity, yoga/stretching, a theme for our Circle Time, drama games, Magical Journeys story telling,
Price for one day - £40
Price for two days - £75 (£5 reduction)
Price for three days - £100 (£10 reduction)
Proposed soft schedule:
9-10 Craft activity part 1, in the YES - Yellow Enrichment Studio
10 - 10.10 - Yoga/Stretching/Jumping, greeting the day!
10.15am - morning snack
10.30 - Circle Time: sharing, connecting, supporting each other in the garden room. A different theme each day.
11.00 - 12 .30 ish - Craft activity part 2
12.30pm - Lunch
1pm - 1.30 Group games / runaround at the skatepark.
1.40pm - Drama (acting) games.
2.20pm - Magical Journey Storytelling, with colourful sheepskins, rainbow blankets, sound healing instruments, for a smoothe calm home time.
3pm Collect the children.
Spring water and organic fruit provided
If these Playshops go ahead, you will be sent all my relevant documents, plus a risk assessment, as I am taking them out of the house. As a school teacher, I am very used to being outside with groups of children, however, safety and awareness is important.
I will also need any important health information and a second ‘phone number from parents.
But let’s see.
Feel free to message me with any questions.
If you prefer e mail: hello@rebeccarainbow.com
Best Wishes,
Rebecca 🌈
“I’ve spent a lifetime, dedicated to the education and well being of children, in the UK and globally.”
Here are some nitty gritty details sharing some of life working with children.
B.A.Hons (Humanities),1986
P.G.C.E Goldsmiths, University of London 1994
Other: Level 2 Counselling, 2025
Foundation training: NVC (Non Violent Communication) 2023, Further training: 2024
Foundation training in Systemic Constellations, The Whole Partnership, 2023.
Counselling, Level 2, 2025
Overview of a life of work with children, UK and worldwide.
Established Creative Education & Mentoring for Children and Young People as a private educator,September 2025
Bespoke creative education and mentoring for sensitive children and young people, who may be; out of school, home educated, needing support for a return to school, delivered by a very experienced, kind, super creative, fun educator.
> 2021-2024 Facilitating creative education sessions, locally, interweaving, nature, ceremony, craft with groups of children.
> Holistic Children’s Party’s
established 2023
> Professional teacher since 1994, in schools, teaching; EYFS, KS1, KS2, KS3, S.E.N; MLD, SLD, SEMH & Private ‘Prep’ schools, and private tuition, London, East Susses, West Sussex, Kent.
> Management Leader for KS2, primary school, London SE1.
Whilst still teaching, I was also involved in a great array of projects and initiatives with children:
> 2023 - summer 2025 teaching in Sussex primary schools, primary, secondary, SEN, SEMH and APC (Alternative Provision Service).
> 2022 School Presentations and workshops for grant funded ecology and environment issues, East Sussex primary schools for FoRM (Friends of the River Medway).
> 2020 Delivered creative education workshops for children 5-9 at Yogi Art School, Arambol, Goa, India.
> 2019 - 2025 Well Being Director for The Academy of Hope (UK based charity), educating and housing impoverished children in India.
> 2017, 1:1 working with a child with SLD to access activities and be supported emotionally, in a play setting.
> 2014-2017 Co founded Peace Button - The Mindful Movement for Children, delivering workshops to thousands of children, teachers & parents in England.
> 2014-2017 Private work in schools in SE England for yoga and creative storytelling.
> 2015 Governess, SW London, supporting a child at home to return to school.
> 2010, 2019 Teaching in NW India. Voluntary.
> 2010-2012 Nutrition and craft skills workshops for children and families.
> 2007 Teaching in primary school, The Gambia, West Africa,Voluntary.
> 2007 Training of teachers from Sierra Leone, in The Gambia, West Africa.
> 1994 - 2025 Professional teaching career (still going!)
> 1990/1 English Language Teacher to adults, London, UK.
> 1988/89 English Language Teacher for children and adults, Japan
> 1988, Nanny, Australia.
> 1983, Children’s support worker, in loco parentis, residential camp, New York, USA.
> 1982 Children’s support worker, in loco parentis, residential setting, (kibbutz) Israel.
> 1981 Long term voluntary support for Down’s Syndrome children, for which I won an award from Bucks CC to visit the USSR.
Specialist skills with children:
> Mindfulness Educator,
> Emotional Development Educator, using Circle Time, Art, Role Play,
> Storytelling,
> Yoga, (Trained 2007)
> Sound Healing, utilising percussion instruments to support regulation,
> Music and Movement facilitator, for children age 3 upwards,
> Sewing and craft,
> Creative poetry,
> Creative writing,
> Drama and Role Play,
> Singing,
> Gardening,
> Bringing awareness to being a global citizen,
> Respect for Self, Respect for others, Respect for the World,
> The cultivation of Awe and Wonder.
“My love for children is expressed through kindness, empathy, and creative, playful expression within an educationally focused, softly structured, emotionally safe environment.”
Contact:
hello@rebeccarainbow.com
Photos below of Rebecca in action with children, over the years :)
jPeace Button workshop, East Sussex Primary School
Education Outreach for Friends of The River Medway, East Sussex schools,2022
Sharing Peace Button at filming for Uplift Connect, 2015
Community workshops for nutrition and health, South London, 2007
The Dougon, Mali, West Africa, 2007
Exploring Mindfulness and calm breathing, with children from The Academy of Hope, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, NW India, 2019
Front cover of The Teacher magazine, 1995