How you feel about your primary school experiences
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Describe your best learning experience. Think about your most valuable, effective, and/or engaging learning experience and in 250-400 words share your learning story. Don't editorialize or try to explain why you think it was your best learning experience, just tell the story.
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When they start school, most children have already had some experience of a pre-school or nursery setting. They have already faced some big challenges:
leaving home with its familiar people and ways of behaving
managing on their own – being independent
meeting different people, both children and adults
learning new skills and performing new tasks
competing and comparing themselves with others.
All changes are stressful and going to school for the first time is a big event for children, whatever their previous experience.
With the rhythm of the school year – periods spent at school interspersed with holidays – children have to adjust to beginnings and endings, and the feelings these evoke. Memories of other changes and losses may be stirred up.
School hours are shorter than those of some nurseries or family centres so children and parents may face another upheaval with different childcare arrangements. Children who had a close tie to their carer may take time to adjust and get used to the separation.
Some children may find the more formal structure and demand for obedience and concentration too much. They may want to do their own thing and may resent what they may see as adults imposing limits on their freedom. Reception class children are too young to put much of their experience into words. They learn to manage situations and master their anxieties through play. Playing games at school with strict, stroppy or kind teachers provide children with ways of thinking about their new experiences with unknown adults and unfamiliar tasks.
It is normal for children’s behaviour to regress at this time. While they’re struggling to manage at the new school, children may become more babyish or demanding at home.
Reluctance to go to school
Many children are a bit reluctant to go to school at first. There are so many adjustments to make that it may take some time to settle in. But children who are still reluctant to leave home after the first few terms may have a more serious problem. This could be to do with difficulties in relation to other children or problems with schoolwork. A frequent reason given for school refusal is bullying. This needs to be takenseriously and explored, but it may not be the whole story.
Reluctance to go to school may also reflect a child’s anxiety about leaving home. Children who have not made the usual moves towards independence, find it difficult to be separated from their mother. Some children may not be able to face school because they are preoccupied with anxieties about what is happening at home in their absence:
jealousy of their mother being with a new baby or younger brother or sister
worry about how a depressed mother is managing without them
anxieties about their parents.
If your child is reluctant to go to school, explore all the possibilities and discuss these with the school.
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Separations and changes in the early years
Sibling rivalryDivorce and separation
It may take children some time to sort out their place amongst the others. Children who have problematic relationships at home, for whatever reason, may not start out feeling confident in school. Jealousy at home may spill over into relationships with classmates. However, children who have felt highly competitive at home may find life easier at school amongst a mixed group of children and be able to create better relationships.
Groups and ‘best friendships’ usually emerge during the first year although they may not survive for a very long time. The ups and downs of friendships may be painful for children, but most of them establish ways of relating to one another in a more or less harmonious way. These are amongst the most powerful experiences of childhood, outside the home.
As they move on to junior school, children tend to divide into same sex groups, often expressing some contempt for the other sex. This seems to be a preparation for adolescence – a way of establishing interests and attitudes appropriate to the culture of being a boy or a girl. Boys and girls will get together again in a few years time.
Children who have ‘girl friends’ and ‘boy friends’ at primary school may be responding to social pressures or what they see on television, rather than their own real wishes and capacity for relationships.
Most children will settle in well amongst the others. But children who are not able to feel comfortable amongst other children may have difficulties. If you think there is a problem, it is worth discussing this with the class teacher, sooner rather than later.