Ten-year-old Sophie Connolly has already started to fulfil her dream of breaking into showbusiness, writes Madeleine Pennell.

A BBC crew has filmed her for the series The Pocket Guide to Parenting and she has just auditioned for the top TV shows Grange Hill and Holby City.

The pocket guide is a 15-minute documentary which follows the everyday lives of ten families from the Oxford area.

The programme was first shown on October 2 and is on five days a week on BBC2 at 9.45am for the next ten weeks.

Sophie's section of the programme began on Friday 27th October.

The BBC filmed typical events for the Connolly family, of Alice Smith Square, Littlemore, such as Sophie's parents, Kevin and Kim, taking her brother Jake to nursery.

They also filmed Sophie during an assembly at Cardinal Newman Middle School, Oxford, where she is a pupil.

Her story will be rounded up by filming rehearsals for the school's Christmas show A Theatrical Experience at the end of November.

She said she felt like "Posh Spice" with cameras pointing at her each time she goes out.

Sophie added: "I just have to do my ordinary stuff the things I do every day. They ask me questions about what I am doing. It is not nerve-wracking. After a while I forget they are there."

Sophie is one of seven students from the Barezzi School of Per- forming Arts at Dry Sandford, near Abingdon, chosen to audition for parts in Grange Hill and Holby City.

She aims to become an actress after leaving school, and added: "I like to act. I don't really care what show I am in. I just find it fun."

The Barezzi School specialises in acting for camera.

It holds regular master classes, including one last term by Kevin Pallister, who played Gavin Clarke in Emmerdale.