What does a nursery that is part of a school expect from a 3 year old child when they start the year before reception? I mean personally/socially as well as "academically".
DS has never been to any nursery/preschool as since he was born, I had ML and then had DD so I am still at home with them both. I imagine the majority of children will have had some experience of nursery/preschool etc and will be used to having a "teacher", but DS won't be. I do take him to groups, so when he sees other little children, he thinks it is time to play and run around etc!
DS's speech is a little behind (a few months, I would say) - IMO nothing serious and I will just wait for it to right itself. I don't want this to upset him so I would like to help him as much as I can in other areas.
If there is anything I can help him to experience/do beforehand, I would really like to. I have potty trained him and he is good if he can always have the potty. I haven't got him used to the actual toilet yet, so I know that is a big thing for me to do. I don't know if he should be putting his own clothes etc (he can't atm). What are they supposed to "know" - what noise each animal makes etc? (he knows these). I really just have no clue about what sort of little things like that to do with him.