2025-2026

Top Tips for Starting School

September seems a long way ahead but it will come round in the blink of an eye, as an Early Years team we have developed a list of activities to be working towards to enable your child to be more independent when they arrive in the reception class next year. However please remember you are your child’s first and most important teacher and every child develops at their own rate please don’t worry if your  child cannot do everything on this list.  It is not that your child cannot do it, its just they cannot do it yet.                                                                   

Good luck and  have fun these are the wonder years

1. Use the  toilet.
2. Put their coat on, do zip / buttons.
3. Put wellington boots on.
4. Change for PE : put their clothes on, take their clothes off.
5. Sit and listen to a story for 10 minutes each night.
6. Recognise the initial letter of their name / name.
7. Hold a pencil.
8. Count to 1-5 
9. Use scissors.
10. Thread beads / pasta onto a pipe cleaner.
11. Know some traditional tale stories: EG: 3 Little Pigs, Goldilocks, Jack and the Bean Stalk.
12. Able to play a simple turn taking game. snap, pairs, snakes and ladders.
13. Throw / catch / kick a ball.
14. Pedal bike /trike.
15. Good rhymers make great readers try so try  learn  8 rhymes between now and September. 

Humpty Dumpty,

Incey Wincey,

Baa Baa Black Sheep,

Twinkle Twinkle,

1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive.

Hickory Dickory Dock

Jack and Jill

Hey Diddle Diddle.

    17.  Wash and dry hands properly.

   18. Open packets/ lids off yogurt if they a packed lunch.

   19. Hold knife, fork and spoon for school dinner.

   20.Use a jug to pour out a drink for themselves