Foundations for Learning, a chain of six nurseries based in Greater Manchester and east London, has contacted each school that its children have gone on to attend, to arrange a meeting with the reception teacher and a catch-up with the child in their new environment.
The chain's area manager Mel Blades said, 'Some schools have embraced our proposals to work together to ensure that the child has the smoothest possible transition. We have already been welcomed into six schools and we have appointments to attend ten more this month.
'Whatever we can do to prepare them - whether it be on a practical level or on an emotional level - we want to do it. And the only way to confirm if we are doing things right is to speak to the next link in the chain: the teacher.'
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