Starting Primary School 2013 Chat

[LuluHB]

Good to know most kids struggle still at this age - hopefully I'll be able to use that sort of argument with Miss I to get some buckles on her feet.

I bought her one of those laces books and she's been "practising" for a week now but she's such an independent little miss that she thinks if you show her once then that's enough. I guess sometime very soon she will accept that she needs a little more help. We still have four full weeks before school starts so lots of practise time

[beansbeans!]

DD1 wanted to learn to tie her own laces a while back, I had a go at teaching her but she wasnt ready to pick it up. So we got her a pair of buckle shoes. But I suppose I shall go back to teaching her, cause her joggers will have laces to be done up lol

[Khaleesi]

We got DD buckle shoes but yes her runners will have laces so i guess she will need to learn before she starts school.

We have been practising writing her name with upper & lower case & helping her to recognize words from books.
Need to get a few things off lay-by mostly her dance stuff & socks, bike shorts & her sports uniform.

[LuluHB]

What level is your DD about to start Cheshire? I always get so confused with who does what when given that all the states seem to be so totally different.

[Trillian]

*meh* about laces. They will get them soon enough. Mine have all varied so much in when they learnt to do it. I know it's a godsend for the teachers if they do know how, but it's nothing a double knot can't fix

[AndiE]

Re: laces. At our orientation morning last November, the prep teacher who addressed all the parents actually asked that we don't buy the preppies shoes with laces, particularly the boys, if we could avoid it. Something about them returning from the toilet with wet shoelaces and asking her to tie them ...

[MrsFabuloso]

Re: laces. At our orientation morning last November, the prep teacher who addressed all the parents actually asked that we don't buy the preppies shoes with laces, particularly the boys, if we could avoid it. Something about them returning from the toilet with wet shoelaces and asking her to tie them ...

Eeewww, gross!