To ask teachers what families can do to help children learn and play at school?

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Please tell me what you'd like from families to help their children learn, play and thrive in school?

Teach them things like taking turns, that it's OK to not always win a game, tidying toys away after playing, recognizing when they need to go to the toilet, putting rubbish in the bin etc.

Also, help them practise doing up zips and buttons, putting socks and shoes on, hanging up their coat on a peg so it doesn't fall off.

These things really help a child have a happy time at school. (I'm assuming you have young children/child, if not then these things probably don't apply!)

Praise the effort the child puts in to doing something, rather than the end result. Reading a story every evening, make it relaxing and fun.

Agree with BotanicalGin as well.

Thanks all, yes, young, second year of primary.

Reading books to them; making reading fun and getting them involved.

Read to them and encourage them to read as well. Praise effort, not grades. Model good behaviour for them. Kids learn so much more and so much better from seeing something rather than being told something. Case in point - if you want a child to say please and thank you, you need to say please and thank you to them when they do things.

Don't see learning as a separate thing. Just get your children involved in everyday activities like cooking, baking, shopping, helping in the household and talk to them about what you're doing and they will learn so much more than by doing any specific activity you might be able to throw at them for an hour a week.

Talk to them constantly, read as part of a night-time routine, make sure they get the recommended amount of sleep...

Visit places and let them have age-appropriate responsibilities. Ensure they can toilet and look after themselves when eating/washing/dressing as it will give them confidence to have those things nailed. Talking to them about basic money concepts like change and paying in different ways is helpful too. Mainly talk, talk, talk alongside teaching manners :) Agree with previous posters.

I would say sleep is a big one - so many fall asleep in class and it limits them more than almost anything else!

Letting them be bored.
Giving them enough exercise.
Getting good sleep patterns.
Learning to wait without fussing.
Learning to lose without throwing a tantrum
Knowing playfighting is unacceptable
Then fun and a love of learning. Helping them be excited and interested in the world about them - everything from crabbing, picking blackberries and cooking with them, eating exciting new foods they’ve shopped for and cooked, glueing and sticking, books - lots of books, button boxes for sorting and threading, cycling, singing and making music, learning times tables songs.

Be 'too busy' to pay them the attention they demand, tell them to wait, in school they're only one of a large number and can't be responded to immediately.

That when an adult says No - it means No - it’s not the opening of a negotiation nor does the world end if you get corrected or told you are wrong by a teacher.
Children (& adults) seem to have increasingly hysterical reactions to ANY hint of trachers or schools imposing any sort of consequence for a wrong choice. Trach your child that every one makes mistakes and make a wrong choice sometimes but the way to deal with it is to be honest, explain what happened and why and then ACCEPT the consequence without a ridiculous over the top reaction. No one ever died in detention!!