Setting children up for a confident and joyful start to school begins long before the first bell. This guide brings together evidence-informed strategies, play-based activities, and partnership ideas to help preschoolers develop the skills, independence, and emotional resilience they need for their big leap into school. 

Play‑based learning builds social, emotional, and academic skills, preparing children with confidence and resilience for school readiness.

Pre-writing skills are crucial for young children as they lay the foundation for future writing success. The following article provides information on What Are Pre-writing Skills, Importance Of Pre-Writing Skill Activities To Promote Pre-Writing Skills and more.

Come along with Little Ted and Kiya as they prepare for their first day at primary school. This episode reflects some of the common experiences for children starting school for the first time, sharing helpful ‘tried and tested’ strategies to incorporate at home and in early learning settings.

Prewriting skills build fine motor strength, coordination, and confidence, essential foundations for children’s writing success.

School Bag Shadows Cut and Paste is a great activity for children to identify the right shadow of each school item to match to the correct school bag. This is a good activity for school readiness.

This activity enables children to develop vidual discrimination skills, hand eye coordination and learning to analyse the shapes of images to match. It also helps children with their cutting skills. 

School Colouring Pages can be used for preschoolers moving onto Kindergarten the following year. They can be used as part of a creative art experience to paint, colour or collage or they can be included in school dramatic play set up. 

School Bus Counting is a counting activity from 1 to 10 for children to match the correct number of children passengers to the corresponding number on the school bus. This activity is great for number recognition, for children learning their numbers, one to one correspondence and more. 

Children have been included that can be printed and used for this activity. This is a great activity for school readiness.