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Work matters: Early years professionals - Study diary

Careers & Training
Louise Masterson is almost at the end of the full training, one-year pathway to becoming an EYP, studying through the NDNA and the Open University. She is making plans for her future, which include setting up her own business.

As the course draws to a close, I have had the busiest month so far. Not only were there seven pieces of work to be submitted to the provider, but the five-hour setting visit has also taken place. While this was enjoyable in the sense that it gave me a good opportunity to show just what I had achieved within the setting, it was very tiring. Like most interviews, it was only when it had finished that I started to remember things that I didn't tell the assessor, or examples that may have better illustrated her questions - but I guess that is the way these things go.

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