Primary 1 preparation

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Preparing A Child for Primary One (Non-academic)

Let me sharesome experiences with you on non-academic aspects:

• How to count money
• How to buy food
• How to be mindful of own properties (even withsticker labels, the items may never come back). Especially when they start toplay, they will forget water bottle, wallet, lunchboxes and sometimes even partof their uniforms if they have a few pieces removable, e.g. pinafore, belt.
• For all payment made to school, always handcheques to them instead of cash if they need to hand in to teacher, at leastfor Term 1.
• Teach them how to pack their own bag
• Cultivate habit to inform you automatically ofall messages from school
• How to look out for bullies
• How to manage the bullies
• Know where the General Office is important
• Don't buy shoes too big that they cannot runproperly during PE
• Don't buy the std plastic covers to wrap textbooks,it will fall off or cut them and it certainly does not keep the books in mintcondition so it defeats its purpose.
• Remind that they should try to go everywhere in2s especially toilets
  
  

• Toilets may not be their size cos it caters fromP1-P6 so some of the taps not easy to push, a friend around can help, otherwisesome get out without washing. Yucks!
• There may be adult cleaners inside there andnowadays, cleaners can be male or female. Going in 2s is safer in case ofpedophiles.
  
  

13. Caution them that the bookshop is only forbuying essentials as I see  many ksgchineseping in the bookshop during recess and skip meals to buy favourite toys orstationeries.
14. Get an elastic attachment to the wallet to hangon the uniform. At this age, they can lose virtually anything.
15. If the school does not issue a standardnotebook, ensure that your child carries one to record all the important datesthe teacher wants them to note.
16. If a child has direction problem, advise thechild to make a buddy in class to move around until familiar with the schoolcompound as the primary school is at least 10 times the size of a preschool.
`7. Lastly, very important to note, remind them notto run but walk in the school compound....too many accidents have happened atthe lower primary level and sometimes they lose their milk teeth in this way.

Additional points:

• How to use the public telephone, esp. if childattends CCA in the morning. I was caught out twice when CCA was cancelledsuddenly
• Get them a wallet with coin compartment. Many ofthose wallets sold in the night market although nice-looking, have no coincompartment.
• I actually find the plastic-covers for booksvery useful. To prevent it from slipping off, cello tape the ends to thebook.  
• Buy a schoolbag in darker colours. School kidsare usually made to place (dump is more appropriate word if your see themin action) their bags on the floor during assembly. The floor is very dirty.Bags, socks and shoes become stained with black marks easily.
• Many kids carry similar bags eg SPI, Deutor etc.Differentiate yours with a ribbon, tag or something.
• Forget those heavy magnetic pencil cases. Adds alot of weight to an already heavy school bag.
• If using mechanical pencils (some teachers donot allow for P1's), make sure they have a few ready to use ones. Nothingdrives a teacher crazier than a child fiddling with one eg clickingrepeatedly to get the new lead down etc. If using mechanical pencils, buy thosethat uses 0.7mm lead - less breakage.
  
  

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