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Working Mum - Getting personal

How a child's carers interact with parents matters- not just during
the nursery years but in school, says Working Mum.

We're now a term in to the new regime of 'big school' and I'm getting used to the rather anonymous routine of depositing and collecting my elder daughter at the classroom door. After being accustomed to the warm interactions of a day nursery, I admit the shock of school for me was that regular personal interaction with my child's carers has stopped.

It's a shame, but with the demands of 31 children in my daughter's class I have to accept that having regular chats with the teacher is not practical unless there is a particular issue. Letters in her book bag and a weekly newsletter have replaced direct communication, but I have gradually become reassured that the school does value my input into my child's education.

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