I have just been to see our local village school ready for dd to start next September. It really is lovely, 15 children max per class, nicely decorated, great facilities and lovely staff. All in all a positive experience apart from one thing. DD will be 4 in Aug, will start in September and go part time until Christmas or so I thought, she will actually go full time after 4 weeks. I'm quite worried about this, the head teacher was really nice and said she monitors each child. What experience do you others have of very young 4 year old starting full time so early.
The only other choice is to send her to another school, but that would mean a car journery, this school is 2 mins down the road and she went to a mother and toddler group in the school hall and the preschool is in the school grounds too so she is very familar with the facilties.
I'm especially worried about how she will cope eating lunch etc, the head said the majority of the children have the school meals, so I would like her to do what the majority have but not sure how she would get on cutting up food etc.
Any advice please