The Grange P-12 College

• Your attitude to your child’s first few days at school is most important. Be positive and convey to your child that school is a happy, great place.

• Send your child to school ON TIME each day.

• Try to set aside a special time each day to listen to what your child wants to tell you and encourage the communication.

• Be interested in the work your child brings home from school. Display it in a special place. Discuss/talk about the work.

• Encourage your child to use manners, speak in a polite voice, listen carefully and obey reasonable requests from the teacher promptly.

• Provide your child with a rich background of nursery rhymes, stories and songs. Read to them, look at the pictures and talk about the books.

• Let your child observe you writing eg letters, shopping lists etc. Encourage your child to write also.

• Play games with your child. Games such as ‘snakes and ladders’, ‘monopoly’, simple card games etc are an excellent means of helping your child understand number concepts, patterns and the use of a dice. They also foster a good sense of sharing.

• Ensure your child attends school every day unless he/she is very sick. Attendance is critical to the development of academic, social and emotional skills