Well i dropped my big girl at school today and her teacher approached me and said "we had our transition meeting and we think that S is ready to go to extended day starting next term’
For those of you who don’t know extended day is started 2 terms before the child starts official school to prep them for starting the school and kids are 4 1/2 when they start. S is 3 and wont be 4 until the end of August. With the view that she will start school 2-3 terms early (2-3 terms = 20-30wks early) than her same age peers. So while i am really excited that all the early learning has paid off I’m sad at the same time to be ‘losing her’ early. My dd is so excited to be a big girl in extended day so i don’t think I will hold her back and and I did ask her teacher how she would cope being the youngest in extended day and her teacher said that S is a very confident young lady and has made friends with the older children quite well.
So here is to Early Learning (raising my pretend wine glass)
P.s I did ask her if she wanted to be homeschooled and she could spend time with Mummy everyday and she turned around and said “No thanks Mum I want to go to school” Humpf all well at least she loves it
and you can after school her still…but give her some time to settle she will be exhausted!