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My name is Alan Gbel. I'm the Manager
of Little Angels Nursery in Aberystwyth.
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My day-to-day job is looking after
the general running of the nursery.
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Making sure all the staff are happy,
all the children are happy.
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I came into nurseries feeling it would be
a stop gap before I went into teaching.
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And it is only once I started doing the role,
I realised how worthwhile it is.
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You get to see so much
development from the children
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and the rewards of
knowing I was part of that.
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I trained on the job. I did my level
NVQ level three through work.
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So it was great I could learn the skills
that I hadn't learned as a teacher.
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I could learn all these new skills
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and still do my job and
spend time with the children.
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I have been here 14 years so
some of the children I looked after
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when I first started are
now 18 which is very scary.
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We're very lucky here
that we live in a small town,
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so you do see them around
a lot, which is amazing.
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The youngest child we've ever
had here was six weeks old
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and then the oldest around four
until they start full-time school.
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I had never changed
a nappy before I started here
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and then got thrown in the deep end.
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It's so important to have male
role models for the children.
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We don't always know
the family situations at home
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so having that male voice
really does make a difference.
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You can see it from the
feedback we get from parents
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and you can see it from how attached
some of the children get to me
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just to have that male voice.
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It's so important but there
are so few of us doing it.
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The children seeing them develop
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and the funny things they do
all the time really makes the job.
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I go home every day
thinking that was amazing
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but I cannot believe they did that or
said that out of the blues. It is great.