Narrative

A page of handwritten notes that describe a child’s first days attending nursery. The first entry reads: Home visit. Lovely Jake was cheery, could tell me what he was looking forward to doing and is keen to start. Another entry reads: Chatty again did a picture for dad and enjoyed pedalling around. An entry further down the page reads: Upset first thing. Settled when mum went. Didn’t want to sing so stayed with Mrs A. Was chatty and happy for most of the session.

A piece of paper with a handwritten reflection about an interaction between the practitioner and a child called Arthur. It reads: 7/8/24 Observation on reflection. Arthur went into the garden and pulled my hand to show me the log. He wanted me to push the log to look for bugs. I did but we couldn’t see any. It had been raining and Arthur noticed the rain on the leaves. I showed him how it had been collected in a leaf, like a cup. Arthur put his fingers into the water. Then he noticed more leaves with water in and he started knocking them with his hand. Lilian came along to see what was happening. Arthur pointed and babbled to Lillian showing her the leaves with water.