Rachel is a teacher with over 15 years experience teaching across the Primary and Nursery age range. In recent years she has specialised in Early Years, teaching for the last 6 years in a maintained nursery school with an enquiry-based approach. Rachel has experience of working with the pedagogy of Reggio Emilia and has taken part in two study tours there as well as working on long term, enquiry projects with children and families in the Telford area. Rachel has been involved in numerous Erasmus+ research projects with pre-schools from around Europe, working with educators from Sweden, Spain and Romania to look at different approaches to high-quality early education. She has recently completed an MA in Early Years where her research included ways of developing empathy through a nature-based curriculum, pedagogical documentation as a tool to increase children’s wellbeing and relationship-based pedagogies. She presented her MA dissertation research at the Children and Childhoods conference in Suffolk in July 2022.