Rainbow Staff

Sammy Fugler | Director

Sammy began his early years career in1996 working in baby and day care provision, gaining the UK qualification 'Early Years Childcare and Education Diploma' (Level 3). He also worked extensively with young people in youth movements in the UK, in 1998 he set up his first Keytana with over 150 children per day, aged 3 to 10 years old. He expanded the programme to run across 8 different sites in and around North London. Sammy's BA is in Applied Drama and Education, shortly after graduation Sammy a post grad in Early Years Education (with Qualified Teacher Status) at the prestigious Institute of Education, Part of the University of London, and taught in schools and nurseries part time for 5 years. Sammy founded Mapalim Ltd in 2000, which grew to be a sizeable education based company, with over 200 employees and a turn over of 2.5 Million pounds a year. Mapalim provided a wide range of educational programmes and projects, many of which were based in the early years. In 2008 Sammy established a 60 place inclusive nursery provision in South London. With a licence from the 'ministry of Education', under Sammy's supervision and leadership Mapalim trained and qualified with national diplomas more than 2,000 nursery teachers. Sammy has also worked as an early years adviser and inspector for a range of UK based government and non-government organisations. In 2010 Sammy gained an MA in Jewish Education, and undertook a significant piece of research into adults perceptions of children's gun play in early years provisions within Israel. Further, Sammy has edited and published materials in the UK in relation to good practice in early years settings. After marrying an Israeli and following the birth of their son, Sammy re-located to Israel and sold the UK based Mapalim company that he ran for over a decade. Sammy completed the Kellogg-Racanati Executive MBA in Tel Aviv in 2013. Sammy set up the Rainbow nurseries in 2012 because he was dissatisfied with the local Israeli provision, and wanted something different for his own son, who was then 6 months old. Sammy is proud to have established a well run, bilingual and inclusive provision, which runs 52 weeks a year! Sammy now works 65% of his time at Rainbow, and 35% of his time as an external verifier, inspector and examiner in the UK for Early years, teacher training and Childcare based training provision.

Emma | Manager

Emma has been the manager of Rainbow since the very beginning, and was instrumental in setting up and establishing the nursery. She also now has her own daughter who attends the nursery!
Emma is a trained nursery teacher, having completed a full apprenticeship in the UK in Children's Care, Learning and Development, she is uniquely qualified to lead the daily practice of the provision. Emma has 15 years of experience; championing best practice and working in early years provisions. In the UK Emma worked in several nurseries, including in management roles.Emma oversees all 5 groups at Rainbow, takes the lead on work with parents and provides line management to our team leaders. What Emma doesn't know about day care, quite simply - isn't worth knowing! She is everyone's go-to person... from sleep advice to weaning children onto solids. There isn't a rash that Emma won't recognise! She is the ultimate Early Years guru!