Is your Child School ready?

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.