Welsh Starting School Storybook: HEAD SAYS, "excellent family-friendly approach to reassuring parents and children"

An A5 illustrated (with drawings based on your school) Storybook that introduces young children to starting at your nursery or reception class.

Drawings of your school

We would illustrate your nursery or reception class... highlighting the story of three fictional children who start in your nursery/reception class and how they become friends and experience the first few days at your school. We reflect their key concerns and worries in each story.

These Storybooks help allay fears and explain what happens at school.

Transition

To aid with transition, the Storybooks would be given to young children who are due to start at your school, usually five-six weeks beforehand, and be used to settle them in and help deal with any anxiety. The parent would read the Storybook 3-5 times a week to the child.

Marketing the school

The Storybooks can also be used to market your school from Sept: available on your website as an e-book, handed out to families through feeder nurseries, distributed to local estate agents as a resource for families new to the area, and available to pick up from local supermarkets, surgeries, hairdressers, libraries etc.

We have developed bi-lingual Welsh and English literature, as well as fully English.

Can be printed, or supplied as a web ready pdf or digital flipbook (see Storybook flipbook example here).

New Size: we have recently developed a new, smaller 'budget friendly' Storybook at four pages, see a 'mock up' here.... and our first proper 4 page here for Holy Trinity Primary School. And second 4 page here for Jubilee Wood Primary School.

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Bethan Price Headteacher, Llanharan Primary School.

It’s such a fantastic, family-friendly idea. The perfect transition tool, in that it actually illustrates our school, and ‘storyboards’ the main worries that children have when starting a new school. It helps children to get used to the school before they have even started.

"Not only does our bespoke Storybook excite children and share starting school information, but it helps children to recognise, through the thoughts and feelings of the children in the book, that it’s normal to be nervous. It encourages them to talk about their feelings with their parents, and ask questions. And, even more importantly, it helps to dispel any nervousness and generate an excitement about starting their learning journey at Llanharan Primary School.