STARTING POINTS: Part 5 - Jagati, 24 months

By Julia Manning-Morton, an independent consultant, trainer and author (www.key-times.co.uk/profiles/). She specialises in practice and provision that meets the needs of children under three and is an expert on the personal, social and emotional well-being of children and practitioners. Her publications include Two-Year-Olds In Early Years Settings: Journeys Of Discovery (2015) and Exploring Well-being in the Early Years (2014)

Two-year-old Jagati lives in a semi-detached house in Bristol with her mum Gita, dad Manish, older sister Neelam (four years) and new baby brother Sunil. Jagati started attending her local playgroup two months ago, not long after her baby brother was born.
Gita is not working while her children are young, so she was able to spend a long time staying with Jagati at the playgroup to settle her in, and now often spends time there helping out.

Jagati and her family are British Asian; her grandparents originated from The Punjab in India. They are all bilingual, speaking Punjabi and English at home and they practise the Hindu religion, although Gita says that this is mostly focused on the big festivals and family events.