DS1 has gone into Year 3 at a new school.
I know it's junior school, and that they begin to have to be more independent, but both he and I are finding the 'distance' that is placed between the school and the parents hard in these initial few days.
Parents aren't allowed into the school except in exceptional circumstances (and if signed in) and I have no sense of what his classroom looks like/ where he keeps his stuff/ how to find out things.
And he suddenly has so many places he needs to be on different days with different equipment etc, and I can't help him to know what to do!
He's not the best organised child on a good day, so I just wondered if, when your child went into Year 3, you found some way of managing the personal organisation side of things e.g. a pocket notebook/ daily calendar in school bag/ writing on hand etc.
e.g.today he had to
- take in 2 things for his teacher,
- 1 for the office,
- take football stuff for an away match,
- change his library books,
- check whether he's got a place in the sports team for tomorrow
- check when his guitar lesson is
- remember to pick up DS2 from after school club before coming out to meet me
AND
- check lost property for his games shorts (lost on Day 3 )
Something's going to go wrong somewhere