Book of the Week 4 July 2022

Starting School by Franzeska Ewart and illustrated by Leonie Shearing  

Two children, Sadie and Sam are starting school...for the very first time! Follow their first week at school as they make lots of new friends, meet their teacher, write, paint, make cupcakes, get stickers...and meet a very special classroom friend.

This delightful book will entertain and encourage every young child who is starting school.

We have been reading this book with our preschoolers to help with transition to school. Some of the children have met with their new teachers and teaching assistants who have come to visit the setting. Some children have visited their new schools to see where they will be going.

We have been looking at photo books of some of the schools to help children see and familiarise where they will put their coats, see what the classroom could look like, what the play area looks like for example.

The children have been role-playing going to school and enjoying putting on the school uniforms themselves, getting jumpers on and off and doing up buttons on dresses. Sometimes they have been the teachers and sometimes the children, making up school rules and practicing writing their names.