Five Minute Mum: Time For School: Easy, fun five-minute games to support Reception and Key Stage 1 children through their first years at school

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Start once you know your school place, mentioning it every so often, then as you approach a month or two before try and have a chat every couple of days or so. This helps the kids see what goes where so when they help themselves it doesn’t become a massive mess.

Tell them what you enjoyed about school, as hearing you explaining that you went too and liked certain bit will help them to discuss things. Five-minute fun activities and games to help with letters, numbers and everything in between - the ultimate handbook to help support your child through Early Years, Reception and Key Stage 1, from bestselling author and social media superstar Daisy Upton AKA Five Minute Mum. There will be things in school with their name written on just for them like their peg, so it’s lovely for them to spot this.

You want to scream “it’s CAT it’s CAT, we read it 30 seconds ago on the previous page and there’s a picture of a FLIPPING CAT!

What IS useful however is if they can recognise their own name written down, or even just the first letter. But when she had her own children, she found she never quite managed to drink a brew while it was still remotely warm. After years of working in sports broadcasting she quit her job to become a Teaching Assistant, which her colleagues at the time found baffling!Daisy Upton has two children, and used to be a teaching assistant, so is more than familiar with the reality of being a parent. For some children being able to draw simply requires showing them how to hold a pencil (one block) but for others they need to be shown how to draw each shape individually with support (lots of blocks).