Checkendon Primary School - How to Help Your Child

How to Help Your Child

Preparing Your Child for School

There are a number of ways in which you can help to support your child before they enter the Reception Year:

· Encourage them to dress and undress independently;

· Teach them to use the toilet independently and to wash their hands;

· Encourage them to look after their own belongings and to tidy away their toys;

· Promote play situations with other children to develop social skills.

You can encourage pre-reading skills and mathematical skills by:

· Reading a variety of stories and rhymes to your child, talking about the pictures and the story together;

· Encouraging them to learn nursery and counting rhymes by heart and to play with sounds in words,

for example, eye-spy;

· Playing matching games, lotto, etc.;

· Encouraging your child to complete jigsaws;

Finally, playing games together can have great social and language benefits for your child, and this process is continued throughout this initial Reception year.