As we near the final terms we start to support our school leavers in being independant ready for school. It would be great for our leavers to have the opportunity to learn independence at home as well as at nursery.
We prepare our children by:
Encouraging them to have a go at being independant in self care and toilet needs. We support them to do this by them having a go by themselves before helping them.
Putting on their own shoes and socks no matter how long this takes!
Being responsible for their own things, checking their bag and making sure lunch boxes and water bottles are in them and hanging up their own coats.
Putting on their own coats, there is a cool trick for this that we are teaching them at nursery.
Recognising their own names and starting to think about the starting sounds of their names.