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Information for Parents with New Entrant Children

  

Preparing Your Child for School

Can your Child…


  • Speak in sentences (no baby talk)
  • Follow simple instructions
  • Recognise colours
  • Recognise numerals
  • Use scissors
  • Hold a pencil or crayon and make bold confident lines
  • Dress themselves
  • Dry themselves (after swimming)
  • Use a handerkerchief
  • Count to 10
  • Match one-to-one
  • Recognise other family members names
  • Copy simple shapes
  • Retell a simple story
  • Do simple jigsaws
  • Turn pages by himself/herself

§         Start at the front of a book

§         Recite nursery rhymes

§         Recite the alphabet

§         Retell fairy tales

  • Ties Shoelaces / do up buckles
  • Understand simple opposites
  • Skip (with or without a rope)
  • Catch, kick and bounce a ball
  • Eat a packed lunch
  • Recognise the letter and sound
  • Write his/her name, copy the alphabet
  • Put shoes on the correct feet
  • Predict what might happen next in a story
  • Family relationships: Grandparents, Aunts, etc
  • Tell someone his/her Christian and Surname

§         Knows his parents as Mr __________ Mrs _____________

§         Tell someone his/her birthday is on ____

§         Recognise objects and what they are for


 

Do You As  Parents…

§         Read to your children

§         Talk to your children

§         Listen to your children

 

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§         A visit to the Library

§         Nature

§         Baking

§         Painting

§         Glueing

§         Water Play

§         Sand Play

§         A visit to the park

§         Swimming pools

§         Crossing the road