✦Family · 13 recordsStarting school

The application has a hard deadline months ahead and everything else has none, which is why the summer disappears. This dates the admin properly and starts the morning routine before term does, rather than in the first week.

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Goal

A first term that starts calmly Month 5

Application in on time, and the routine already running before term does.

The admin Month 3

One hard deadline, months ahead of everything else.

  • Check the application deadline for my authorityDo firstDay 3
  • Visit the schools worth visitingWeek 4
  • Submit the applicationDo firstMonth 2

Get ready for September Month 5

Practical and ordinary, which is what the first week asks for.

  • Practise dressing, lunch and the journeyMonth 4
  • Buy uniform and label everythingMonth 4
  • Move bedtime and wake time a fortnight earlyDo firstMonth 5

Routines

  • The school-day wake timedaily
  • Read togetherdaily
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Dates you will not have to remember

First day of school

Month 508:3060 min
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Move the routine before term

A new wake time, a new bedtime and a new journey all landing in the same week is a great deal for a small child. Shifting them a fortnight early means only the school itself is new on the first day.\n\nThe application deadline is the one thing here that cannot be recovered from. Everything else is flexible.

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Starting school, answered.

Usually many months before the September in question, and missing it is expensive in a way almost nothing else here is. It is the first dated task for that reason, and worth checking against your own authority's calendar.
Because a new wake time, a new bedtime and a new journey all landing in the same week is a great deal for a small child. Moving them a fortnight early means only the school itself is new on the first day.
The practical and ordinary — dressing independently, managing a lunch, knowing the way in. Those are what the first week actually asks for, far more than anything academic.
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