Reception teachers: - Home visits - are they essential?

[StarlightMcKenzie]

Just that really.

What are they FOR?

DD had a home visit for nursery which seemed fairly pointless though kind of nice to meet the teachers (but I would have met them the following week anyway - surely)

It's just that if dd isn't going to start school for a whole other week, I'd quite like to go away instead of wait at home the whole week for a 5 minute visit iyswim.

[StarlightMcKenzie]

Oh that's a point. Our address has changed since application date.

Never lied though, but school will need to be informed.

[Cloverer]

What kind of nursery sits children in particular places? Do they have desks?

[littleducks]

DS's reception class have particular places for carpet time which I think is registrations, phonics, show and tell and end of the day story. It is a patterned carpet with shapes on and they know their shape. A sits right at the front as she has bad eyesight, B sits in a particular spot where his hearing aids work well and near his 1 to 1 TA and friends are not seated next to each other so they don't chat.

Probably stops the I was sitting there/I want to sit next to X arguments too. They spend the rest of the day walking around different activitois

[Tanith]

I do home visits as a childminder and so does the local nursery school
I find that children settle much quicker having seen me in their own territory, where they feel safe and relaxed, and being welcomed by their parents.