Getting ready for school (reception)

[cake93]

Hello

Do we have a checklist of things to tick off for getting ready for reception?

Also, does anybody have any links to educational activities we can be doing over the summer holidays to support with getting school ready?

Thanks :)

Please don’t do this. It works well when there’s only one child in a nice clean room doing it, but it’s chaos when there’s 30 children in a tiny cloakroom. The floors are usually too dirty by lunchtime to want to put your coat on them, and even if they weren’t, other children have muddy shoes and can’t help but step on each others coats when they’re all on the floor. We once had a child that stepped backwards onto another child’s coat just as they were about to flip it over their head, and the first child ended up flat on her face with a bleeding nose. Thankfully we stopped allowing children to do it after that.

It is harder for children to put their costs on the normal way, but if you get them one with a hood and teach them to put the hood on first and then find the sleeves, they can usually do it themselves pretty quickly.

Another reception teacher saying no shoelaces please. I always wary of helping a child (usually boys) whose shoelaces are wet, especially if it's dry outside...
Just mirroring the above really: recognising name, doing up coat, being able to put jumper on/off - same with shoes, turn taking. Basically skills which would make the teacher's life that little bit easier when rounding up 30 kittens.

Wet shoelaces - the worst! 🤢