How to help child starting P1?

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My DS is 4 and starting P1 in September. He's currently in preschool, and extremely happy there. The preschool is linked to a school most of his little friends are going to; unfortunately we have moved house and we need to go somewhere closer to home as the walk to his current school each day is just too far.

So he's going to be starting a new school for P1 in September. We are a bit worried about it as his current school is so great and we're all going to miss it.

He was very anxious about starting preschool but he's done brilliantly. Does anyone have any tips how to prepare him for P1 in a new school?

We've also signed him up to his new school's summer camp during the summer so he will hopefully meet some of his classmates.

i think the summer camp is your answer.
theres not a lot you can do. At that age rhe kids dont notice who wasnt at nursery .
im sure it will.be fine

This is probably a bigger worry for you than it needs to be, but that's natural! Remember four year olds start school all the time knowing none of the other children, and by Christmas it will likely be impossible to tell which children knew each other before starting school and which children knew no one.

If it helps though, you could do some role play type things so that your ds has ready made and practiced phrases to use if he wants a turn on a certain toy or wants to join in someone else's game. It will help if he's confident talking to the adults that will be looking after them as well so he knows he can go and ask the man for help with anything if he needs to.

Other than that, just concentrate on the normal starting school stuff like being able to recognise his name, put his coat/shoes on by himself etc.