Back to school tips
While everyone is still in festive season mode, it is important to start planning for back to school.
Knock knock its Back to school time. Sounds so familiar to your ears?
That means back to early mornings, preparing children for school, making those lunch boxes and ensuring that they have everything for the day.
Also, driving them to school and picking them later after school. Back to monitoring if they have done their homework’s and they study every day.
I know it’s the festive season and no one is perhaps paying that much attention to “Back to school.”
Well, we cannot ignore it. That time is just around the corner.
It is going to be difficulty for the children to wake up on the first day, even though they’ll be full of excitement to meet with their peers after a long time of apartness.
Get ready for it, start preparing your kids for back to school.
It’s going to be an emotional day for parents that will be taking their children to Grade R, seeing their children starting the journey and of course some toddlers will be so excited and some not so keen to be away from their mothers and to be with different other children.
Caxton has lists of steps to follow in order to ready their kids for BACK TO SCHOOL
1. Do shopping for school, uniform, school bags, lunch boxes, stationery etc. It’s quite cheap during the festive season. Prices will sky rocket in January.
2. Go back to the sleep time- It’s important to start to get your children to go back to their normal bedtime, if you do that it will be not a hassle for them to wake up on their first day at school and onward.
3. Start covering their books and ensuring that everything is in order before hand.
4. School customs – start by re-establishing school routines for your kids, if the first thing they do when they get back to house is to do their homework, start by giving them books to read at time.
5. Get them used to their studying or homework place again.
6. Limit the time they spend watching time or using their laptops or cell phones. If you always switch off the TV and take their cell phones’ at 19:30, start doing it again.
7. Do a review on school material and information issued by the school for the following year.
