School home visit?

[Grumpytiredandsick]

Hi,

sorry first time parent here so I don't really know what I'm doing. My little one is die to start school next September so we're looking round the local schools, and one said that before they started the teacher would come round for a home visit?
is this normal? What is the home visit for?

sorry if it's obvious- never done this before and was a bit surprised they'd be coming to my house.

Just a way of introducing themselves to the child, finding out a bit about the child and (probably) discreetly checking the child is living in a safe environment.
It's no Biggie.

Yes happened with us

Does your little one attend nursery? Our teachers visited the children in their nursery settings to introduce themselves. I imagine that if the children aren’t in nursery, they visit them at home instead. Perfectly normal.

to try to get to know the child in their own home. Children often aren’t as shy at home. Our teacher brought a puzzle to do with my DS, who refused to do it as he never liked the picture. Teacher then asked what he did like and told him they had dinosaurs at school. Teachers aren’t their to judge your decor or anything

Yes, it's normal. When we had ours, the teacher took a pic of DD with the class cuddly toy. They explained that they would attach the photo to DD's coat peg ready for first day, so she knew where to hang her coat and bag. Nice touch i thought!

we never had this. It probably would not have been possible as at the time dh worked from home as a private teacher.

Happened with mine 13 years ago. They can see the child at home, relaxed. You get an opportunity to ask questions without other parents overhearing. Child can show favourite toys.
You don't have to let them come if you don't want to.

Yeah we had this. Teacher arrived at the alloted time (3pm on a Friday), informed us she wasn't even DS' teacher but his teacher was ill so she was stepping in, told us we were her last visit of the week, asked if we needed another info pack that had been posted out and basically couldn't wait to get out of our house! DS sat on the sofa opposite her and stared at her pretty much in horror. She was gone in under 10 minutes and afterwards DS said "who was THAT?". Seemed like a total waste of time.

Ah okay thanks everyone! I think I got myself a bit paranoid that they wanted to come and poke around my house 😂

Some schools do it. Not all I don't think.

Round here when mine were that age (long time ago, they're in their twenties now) the reception teachers visited them in preschool and in the local daycare nursery. That meant they saw most of them there, just not on a one to one basis. My three first met them that way.

I don't know whether they visited those who weren't in preschool/nursery at home or not. There were very few of those.

My school does it, all children that are starting nursery/reception have a home visit, primarily an opportunity to have a little chat, useful to help with that transition into nursery.

They did this for my eldest, it was a lovely introduction. He straight away invited the teacher and TA to see his room! I was so glad I had tidied up! Post Covid it hasn't happened for my youngest who started yesterday, which was a real shame.