Daisy Upton, aka Five Minute Mum gives her advice on getting kids ready for Primary School.
The cliché is true: one minute you’re on high alert to catch milky burps, then you blink and you’ve got a four-year-old who is trying on a school jumper. As an ex-teaching assistant and mum of two, I have been on both sides of the school gates. But even preparing my little ones for starting school felt quite daunting and like a big deal, because it is. For us and them!
‘Wash wash wash you hands, scrub them nice and clean, in and out and round and round, make those handies gleam!’This is quite a hard skill to teach. However in any of the games we play whenever my little one’s get frustrated at not being able to do something, I always calmly remind them that they can ask for help and often mention to them that at school the adults will do the same. In my
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