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How to prepare your child
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Bring your child to the interview to meet their teachers
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Bring your child to the orientation play morning in January
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Be familiar with this handbook
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Read the Welcome to Kindy booklet prepared especially for the children.
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Talk about kindergarten in a positive way; for example discuss things they might do, such as painting, blocks etc.
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Use your child’s teachers’ names when discussing kindergarten. Please note the teachers like to be called by their first names; no “Miss”. Thank you.
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Familiarise your child with lunch containers (and practice how to open them), their hat, their bag etc.
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Encourage your child to be independent and self-sufficient, eg: carry their own bag, putting on their own shoes etc