School Readiness

Before making the decision whether or not your child is ready for school, consider the following questions:

Can your child:

• Go to the toilet, eat and dress with minimal assistance?
• Recognise their own belongings?
• Stay with a familiar person happily?
• Concentrate for short periods?
• Understand and obey simple instructions?
• Cooperate without frequent temper tantrums?
• Makes needs known?
• Follow simple instructions?
• Uses a variety of things (pens, pencils, textas, paintbrushes, sticks in the dirt) to draw, to scribble or to write?
• Identify things in a group that are different, and differentiate between opposites such as day and night, light and dark etc.?
• Play cooperatively with other children - shares and takes turns?
• Use scissors to cut along a straight line?
• Enjoy a variety of indoor and outdoor play?

If you answered 'yes' to most of the above questions then this is a good indication that your child may be ready for the first year of school.