Welcome to Moving on Monday Club

especially for nursery children moving on to Primary 1.

We’ll be here every Monday to share activities, ideas and challenges to help you get ready for P1.

It takes concentration!

At school your child will be in many situations that call for concentration. Teachers are skilled at planning and preparing appropriate activities and will support your child to grow in concentration.

Parents often worry before school starts that their child will find it hard to concentrate for so long because sometimes it seems like their child can only concentrate for one second!!!

But if you watch your child doing something they’ve chosen to do and something they enjoy, you’ll see that they can concentrate for ages.

Have a look at these pictures from nursery and you’ll see the enjoyment and the sense of achievement that comes alongside concentration:

What helps children concentrate? Allow them to be in situations that demand concentration, such as the examples in the pictures above.

Then praise and more praise! Praise your child for even the little they can do.

Give them a sense of achievement over the little things and the bigger things will follow!

So today, find something your child likes doing, watch their concentration and PRAISE or THANK them for what they can do! (Even if they’ve only managed something for one second!!!). And tomorrow, when they do the same thing, praise them some more!

Here are some things you might like to do with your child to watch them grow in concentration.

Playing games together is a really good way of developing concentration. Here are some old favourites:

Why not join in with the Sports activities on the school’s Facebook page this week? Have fun!

We miss you! See you next week! Can’t believe it’s June already!