Courtney has recently turned three years old and is a shy, quiet child. She is the middle sibling with two brothers aged five and one, and lives with them in a single-parent household.
Staff were already familiar with Courtney’s family when she started attending Paint Pots Nursery in Sholing, Southampton a year ago because they also cared for her big brother before he started primary school.
They had built a strong relationship with the family, so were unsurprised by Courtney’s timid personality. They knew that her mother, whom she lives with, had experienced domestic problems and issues with anxiety, partly due to her lack of confidence with reading and writing.
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