But the pupils starting Primary 1 at Letham Primary in Angus next term have had many of their questions answered already in a handbook designed especially for them by children in Primary 6.
As part of an enterprise project, the P6 pupils set up their own company, called P6 Trademark, and created the handbook to make the step from nursery to primary a little less daunting.
'Parents get a handbook when their child comes to school, but the children need to know things too,' said one of the pupils, who is a director of the company.
Headteacher Linda McDonald said, 'The handbook is more child-friendly than the one the parents receive. It is full of drawings the children have done to tell the little ones about the everyday things they are going to come up against.'
Thanks to the buddy system operating at Letham, each nursery child is teamed up with a Primary 6 pupil, so when they start P1, they all have someone well-known to them.
'The buddies have gone through the handbook with the nursery children before they take it home to show their parents,' said Mrs McDonald.
The handbook contains a map of the school, school rules, teachers' names, information about school uniforms and the playground and what activities take place there.
Comments about the school such as 'All the teachers are kind and helpful', 'The corridors are never crowded as they are so big' and 'The classrooms and toilets are kept very clean thanks to the cleaners', could all go a long way to reassuring any child worried about beginning 'big school'.
