practical learning and development - and ultimately a PGCE with EYT
Status. Charlotte Goddard reports.
Early years education runs in the family for Stephanie Porter. The 23-year-old's parents, Nick and Anthea Porter, own the 1st Safari Day Nurseries chain, which has five nurseries across Yorkshire, as well as a soft play centre in Leeds. Ms Porter had her first glimpse of life as an early years practitioner when working weekends at the play centre while she was at Sheffield Hallam University, doing a degree in business and IT.
Ms Porter's initial plan was to join the family business's human resources team. But when she was asked to provide occasional sickness and holiday cover in the nurseries after she had graduated, she began to get a taste for early education. 'It was very different from working in the play centre, where the parents are there with the children,' she says. 'When I was in the nursery I realised that I enjoyed helping the children to develop.'
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