Summer may seem a long way off but it’s not too early to start thinking about how to smooth children’s transition to school or new classroom. Some children in your setting may already be getting itchy feet and seem to have ‘outgrown’ nursery. Others, as you know, will find the process daunting and will crave the comfort of a room and key workers that they know and trust.
As part of my MA in early years education at the University of Derby, I developed the idea of creating ‘special books’ with children as part of the transition process, and I now use these with my children at Mary Swanwick School in Chesterfield.
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