As the end of the academic year approaches, many of the children in your care will be facing transitions of one kind or another. Perhaps they will be going to a group setting for the first time, or moving from nursery to 'big school', or from Reception into Key Stage 1 when September arrives. This week's Nursery World has lots of information and advice to help you support children at these important points in their lives. Our child behaviour series looks at the feelings of both loss and excitement that transitions involve and at how these emotions might affect children's actions (see 'Moving on', pages 12-13).
As the end of the academic year approaches, many of the children in your care will be facing transitions of one kind or another. Perhaps they will be going to a group setting for the first time, or moving from nursery to 'big school', or from Reception into Key Stage 1 when September arrives.
This week's Nursery World has lots of information and advice to help you support children at these important points in their lives. Our child behaviour series looks at the feelings of both loss and excitement that transitions involve and at how these emotions might affect children's actions (see 'Moving on', pages 12-13).
Then you can share the good practice of two schemes aimed at children starting school or nursery for the first time, outlined in 'A flying start', pages 14-15.
We need to give particular thought to transitions because children in the UK face so many of them in our current system, moving perhaps from nanny to day nursery to nursery class to reception, all before their formal schooling starts at Key Stage 1 at the tender age of five. More continuity of care would be welcome indeed.
