Bedtime behaviour (4 year old)

[Icytundra]

In the last week my 4 year old has turned feral at bedtime. Up until recently she could sometimes be a bit naughty at bedtime/ take a while to settle down but she is now absolutely feral.
She refuses to get in bed, runs out of the room, throws so her belongings on the floor, hits, kicks, basically everything.

She's starting school soon and only has 3 days left at pre school so I'm wondering if that's the reason for it.

Has anyone else experienced this or have any tips? I'm at my wit's end ☹️

When I saw your thread title I immediately wondered if it might be about starting school. Have you been doing a countdown of “sleeps” until school starts?

No but we've talked about how many days of preschool she has left..... She's got a week off in-between. A lot of her friends have already finished at preschool and she's said goodbye to her keyworker who is on annual leave this week.

I suppose my question is, if it is about school, what do we do? Just ride it out? She's disrupting her poor little sister's sleep too

It’s a tough one. Does she know many of the children who will be in her class? Can you arrange play dates with any of them? Can she articulate how she feels about school?

She knows one child- they're not particularly friends as they've been in separate bubbles this year unfortunately.

She is an extremely articulate child (so it's not a case of not being able to understand her) but whenever we chat about school she just says she's really excited, she wants to go there now etc.

I think you're right and it is school that's bothering her though.....