Transition to School

These children meet for carefully planned, small group learning experiences that foster a variety of skills and dispositions. During these sessions, the children are given tasks to complete that require them to use their developing fine motor skills when reinforcing fundamental knowledge such as letter symbols, phonics and to count and practice writing numerals.

Whilst knowledge and skill acquisition are paramount to a successful transition, it is also important to nurture the holistic potential of the children. This means that we endeavour to foster independence, taking responsibility for their emotions and belongings and to have a positive attitude fuelled by high self-esteem. These small group experiences encourage the children to collaborate, listen to others, to persist with seeing a task through to completion and to make their own decisions. 

We prepare our older children for primary school by arranging frequent visits to either the Boys’ School or Girls’ School where they meet their new teacher, say hello to old Preschool friends and experience school-related activities.

Our Preschool children also have the opportunity to join in major school events such as Celtic Day, Flora McDonald Day, cross country, the Arts Festival, school musicals, athletics day, swimming sports, Chapel services and Carol services at Christmas.

Collectively, we believe that children possess effective social skills and communication strategies and are very well placed to be an active participant in their own learning journey, both now and in the future.