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Spotlight on…Carolyn Quirke

Baby room practitioner at Bird in Bush Nursery in Peckham

How long have you been working at the nursery?

It will be three years in May, and it came out of the blue as I had spent all my working life in retail. I started chatting to a friend who worked in childcare and honestly didn’t have a clue. I thought it was just singing nursery rhymes and reading books with the children. As I learnt more I began to realise the true role of a practitioner, and soon after I started at 56 found myself writing essays on the EYFS to get my Level 2.

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