Team Forest Hill
Kristine
Director and founder
Kristine holds a master degree in economics and gained her NVQ 3 certificate in education, childcare, development and learning in 2008. Before she established the Kindergarten Forest Hill in February 2013 she served as Director for the German Kindergarten in Herne Hill for 5 years. She very much enjoys working with children, parents and a wonderful team.
Fabian
Deputy Manager, Early Years Educator
Fabian is coming from Vienna, Austria, where he was working in an English/German bilingual setting for pre-school children for seven years before he joined the Kindergarten Forest Hill in September 2015. He is a trained Forest School and Montessori teacher and loves to work with children especially in the outdoors and on their physical development. In our setting he is charge for the areas of learning 'The World', ‘PSED' and all outdoor activities. He is also in charge of our behaviour management.
Conny
Early Years Educator
Conny comes from Germany, Dettenhausen where she graduated in 2017 as ‘Staatlich geprüfte Erzieherin’ (Early Years Educator). She spent the last two years working in a nursery in Germany before she joined our team in September 2019. Conny very much enjoys working with children and loves to support them in their personal development and skills. In our setting she is responsible for ‘Physical Development’ and our Spring of Feelings program.
Fiona-Maria
Nursery Assistant
Fiona-Maria grew up in Greece and Germany. Since 2021 she has been working with us as our nursery assistant. She is an actress and filmmaker, and whilst performing for children's theatre, she found her passion in working with children. To support them in their personal development and in their own individual creativity gives her much joy.
Mel
Nursery Assistant
Mel is English and has joined our Kindergarten part-time. She is a musician, and has worked as a nanny for many years. She loves seeing how children learn and develop, and enjoys exploring their imagination through play, art and music.
Sonia
Nursery admin
Sonia joined Forest Hill Kindergarten at the start of May '22 working across our Forest Hill and Bellingham Green Nursery as a Nursery Administrator looking after admissions and parent accounts. Sonia has several years working in a childcare setting, having previously worked at Nelly's Nursery in Dulwich, where she was an Accounts Administrator. And as a parent herself, Sonia very much understands the importance of good parent/nursery communication, striving to make any processes as straight forward and responsive as possible for our new and existing families.