Does anyone else find the varied and really long settling-in period at reception primary school in the UK in September so backward?
Ours don’t start in the first week of school. Then the second week they start on different days, in groups, for 2hrs, then a few days of 1pm then after that a full day until 3pm. They have been in nursery full days since babies. We need our annual leave to use in the school holidays. Why drag this out and use up annual leave of 2-3 weeks?
Does this burden fall (or is taken by) mostly women? Does anyone have any evidence this prolonged transition is better for the child then a few half days?
Lastly, why do we all put up with this ....?
Not in favour of just dumping them in a new school with no settling period. It’s just the very prolonged, and so different between schools, period which seems to take no account of most parents being employed now.
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Settling in for reception 2 weeks of mornings?!
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Sparky888 · 27/05/2019 09:27
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