Nursery World - Play away (2)

One enterprising nanny moonlights every morning. Penny Vevers hears what it's like to juggle two jobs Nanny Sam Chapman, 26, is in the kitchen making lunch for four-year-old Josh, while he plays happily on the floor with a toy stable and horses. In an hour or so, Sam will walk down the road with Josh to collect two of his brothers, Harry, ten, and George, seven, from the local primary school. And when Oliver, 12, the oldest, gets home from secondary school, she'll cook them all tea and help them with homework. The boys' mother, Ann Toynbee, works as a solicitor and their father, Martin, is a family doctor.

Nanny Sam Chapman, 26, is in the kitchen making lunch for four-year-old Josh, while he plays happily on the floor with a toy stable and horses. In an hour or so, Sam will walk down the road with Josh to collect two of his brothers, Harry, ten, and George, seven, from the local primary school. And when Oliver, 12, the oldest, gets home from secondary school, she'll cook them all tea and help them with homework. The boys' mother, Ann Toynbee, works as a solicitor and their father, Martin, is a family doctor.

A typical day in a nanny's life. But not quite. Josh and Sam have just got home from another morning at the Cottis Playgroup in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, where Sam is the manager.

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