'School Readiness' Survey 2021

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* 1. What is your role in supporting children?
(e.g. parent, care-giver, nursery educator, childminder, home-based educator, primary teacher)

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* 2. What do you think ‘school readiness’ means?

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* 3. Within your current community context, what support is there to help prepare children for school?

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* 4. Which skills do you feel are most important in order to prepare young children for starting school?

Social emotional skills (e.g. separates easily from parent/carer, performs basic self-care tasks, shows caring for others, can work independently)

Academic skills ( e.g. recognises and names numbers, shapes and letters of the alphabet, can follow simple instructions)

Other skills or further comments

None of the above

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* 5. Which of these skills do you feel are important for children to develop before starting school? Select all that apply:

Able to separate easily from parent/caregiver

Sit for 10 minutes

Works and plays cooperatively with peers

Perform basic self-help/self-care tasks

Controls impulses and self-regulates

Expresses empathy or caring for others

Concentrates and persists on tasks

Displays confidence

Displays problem solving skills

Can make independent choices and work independently

Other (please specify) or further comments

None of the above

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* 6. Which of these skills do you feel are important for children to develop before starting school? Select all that apply:

Recognises 3 primary, 3 secondary and 6 tertiary colours

Recognises numbers 1-10

Count to 10

Count to 20

Follows one or two-step directions

Recognizes three primary shapes: circle, square, triangle

Uses pencils, crayons & scissors appropriately

Appropriately expresses needs and wants verbally in primary language

Knows names and sounds of some/most letters of the alphabet

Writes their name &/or letters of the alphabet

Ability to manipulate speech sounds such as rhyming or alliteration

Other (please specify) or further comments

None of the above

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* 7. In your opinion what skills do children need support with most in the first Autumn term?

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* 8. Where are the improvements most needed?

Early years settings

Curriculum

Support for families and teachers

Why? (please specify)

None of the above

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* 9. In what ways do you suggest information be shared between parents/care-givers/childminders/educators and Reception teachers to assure that children are ready for school?

I'd be willing to collaborate with teachers to discuss critical indicators of success. How?

I'm not willing to collaborate. Why?

Please elaborate your answer here

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. If you are happy to be contacted for further insight or you wish to give more detail around your answers, please email Millie James at: yournetwork@montessori.org.uk

Question Title

* 1. What is your role in supporting children? (e.g. parent, care-giver, nursery educator, childminder, home-based educator, primary teacher)

Question Title

* 2. What do you think ‘school readiness’ means?

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* 3. Within your current community context, what support is there to help prepare children for school?

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* 4. Which skills do you feel are most important in order to prepare young children for starting school?

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* 5. Which of these skills do you feel are important for children to develop before starting school? Select all that apply:

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* 6. Which of these skills do you feel are important for children to develop before starting school? Select all that apply:

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* 7. In your opinion what skills do children need support with most in the first Autumn term?

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* 8. Where are the improvements most needed?

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* 9. In what ways do you suggest information be shared between parents/care-givers/childminders/educators and Reception teachers to assure that children are ready for school?

* 1. What is your role in supporting children?
(e.g. parent, care-giver, nursery educator, childminder, home-based educator, primary teacher)