Beckstone Primary School

Encouraging your child to do as much as possible independently will help them to achieve their developmental goals. Dressing and undressing is an important milestone for Nursery children and is an Early Learning Goal in Reception. For this reason, we ask Reception children to leave their P.E kits at school. The children will then change independently on their two P.E days.

To help us help your child develop greater independence, we ask that you:

• encourage your children to dress and undress themselves, even though it will take a little longer. Let them take off their coats, hang them up and put them on – all by themselves.
• clearly name all items of clothing which your child is likely to take off at school.
• if your child needs to be changed for any reason and comes home in spare clothes, we would appreciate them being washed and returned as soon as possible. Thank you.