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Quality Care in a Fun and Stimulating Environment
Transition to School - our amazing links with Market Deeping CP School
One of the most important journeys your child will make will be from Nursery to School.
As our children in the pre-school room prepare to go to their first school, we are delighted and proud of the links we have with Market Deeping CP School. We begin to prepare the children for their transition after Easter and from then one of the TAs from school, Mrs Moxham, will visit us every week for up to an hour, playing with children and getting to know everyone. Our children already go into school regularly for their football sessions and for other visits. We visit the Reception class together and also take any SEN children through regularly in order for them to become familiar with the school environment and the class itself. Mrs. Noble, the Early Years Teacher, also visits the children in our setting and we have a special morning each year when our children go through to the Reception class and spend a morning with both sets of staff, undertaking activities with a theme, for example Stick Man.
Due to our strong co-operative measures, we have been told that our children are almost always confident, happy and clearly ready to begin their new journey in school.
We spend time talking with Mrs Noble, ensuring that we are supporting the most important skills which children should have before they begin school - these are far more about independent thinking, being able to undertake all the personal tasks of the day like shoes, coats etc., and feeling secure in themselves and in their surroundings. We hold an annual meeting for any parents who would like to find out how they can support these skills and to reassure parents that their child will learn to read, write and develop lots of other academic skills if they are secure and happy whilst at school. We include a 'PE week' in the summer term when children will bring in their own shorts, t-shirts and trainers. The children change into the clothes (hopefully themselves) but are also encouraged to remember where they leave them! We include some fun physical games and activities and then children change back again. By the end of this week we find that lots of children have become confident in both finding their clothes again and changing.
Using 'persona puppets' in school uniform we encourage the children to talk about any concerns they have about transition to school and cover these in a fun, caring way through the use of the puppets. There are many great books to support transition and we also use those regularly.