1. Gain experience of different settings.
Tracey Stanton started out as a nursery nurse, became a teaching assistant and is now a play leader at a large after-school club in Coventry. She says: "Experience is important and I would urge people when they are starting out to do some volunteer work with different types of settings."
She believes the different jobs she has taken on have helped her in her current role. "My previous roles as a nursery nurse and teaching assistant mean that I understand what children go through during their school day before they come to us," she adds.
Jane Bentley, a nursery manager in Derbyshire, says that a member of her staff is complementing her pursuit of graduate-level qualifications at Sheffield University by gaining experience in the baby room and will then go to another setting to work with a different age group.
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