Jennifer is four years and two months old and has been attending the Pen Green Nursery for five afternoons a week since November 2008. She settled well into the nursery routine and enjoyed the new experience of being in nursery.
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Jennifer lives in Corby with her mother Vesselina, her father Martin and younger sister Georgia. Although Jennifer settled well into nursery, I did notice, however, that her mother was struggling with Jennifer starting nursery and appeared anxious. Vesselina opened up to me and shared her worries and concerns that she had about the nursery.
It became apparent that the freedom and choices that we offer the children at Pen Green were quite a different experience to her own when she was a child growing up in Bulgaria. There, nursery was more structured and teacher-led, so Vesselina found it hard to see what the children would actually learn from an environment like ours.
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