STARTING POINTS: PART 8 - Piotr 42 months old

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)

Piotr is three and a half years (42 months) old and has recently started attending the nursery class of his local primary school in Nottingham. As well as being new to the nursery, Piotr is new to the UK. He arrived here from Poland with his mother Iwona and sister Emilja (six years old) six months ago. His father Andrzej had been living and working in the UK for the previous two years and was then in a position for his family to join him.
The family now lives in a terraced house near the nursery. Piotr and his family speak Polish at home; Andrzej also speaks almost fluent English, while Iwona is attending classes to develop her basic English further. Both are using some English words and phrases with Piotr and Emilja to support their introduction to school and nursery.