How can I help my child get ready for school?
Being school ready involves encouraging your child to develop skills which help them to be independent and ready to learn. These skills range from eating and self-care to listening and turn taking.

Road to School readiness Poster
This poster helps you and your child prepare for school, it includes these useful skills you and your child can work on in the lead up to school.
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I'm Ready For School
An alternative version is also available to download here

Here are some other ideas of things you could do to help your child feel ready:

• Walk past the school so they can see where they are going.
• Talk about what they are looking forward to.
• Practise getting dressed in their new uniform.
• If their name is on a label in their clothes, show them where and what to look for.
• Is there anything they are worried about?
• Play games together which practise turn taking or sharing.
• Play ‘schools’ together.
• Give them some words/phrases to help them ask for help from an adult.
• Practise asking to go to the toilet and going to the toilet themselves.
• Tell your child what you will be doing while they are at school – so that they don’t worry about you!

Please also see link below to a useful website which gives ideas of how to support your child in the lead up to starting school.
www.pacey.org.uk

BBC Bitesize also offers some great advice from professionals and some videos you can share with your child.
www.bbc.co.uk/.../starting-primary-school

Also a 'First day at School' game which you may find useful.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics
What is the Lethbridge school uniform?
See the school website link for uniform. We also use the bookbag shown on this link.