My daughter started reception in September. She was desperate to start, and she loves it. But, at parents evening we found out that she won't talk to the teachers. She is painfully shy with them and she chews her shirt or cardigan a lot. She seems to be okay with the other children, although she does rely quite a lot on a pre-school friend in the another class at play time. Before she started school, she was a really happy, confident little girl. She has always been a little shyer with adults, but she was able to talk to them and interact with them. Now she won't do it with anyone. She is also now very shy with older children (hides her face, won't talk in front of them). When she started pre-school at 2 1/2 she was also very shy and quiet, but she was there for two years and she left full of confidence and happiness. I'm just so upset that she seems to have lost all of that (not the happiness, just the confidence). I'm not sure what to do to try to help her to build it up and to feel more confident in herself. I've posted this in the primary school bit too, because I thought it might get a different audience on both places. So apologies if you have seen this twice!!