Louise Morrissy
This summer we introduced the Starting School book at Shawfield Primary School. As a staff, we are very pleased with the personalised illustrations and how closely the story matches our school and the routines in Year R. I enjoyed working with Debbie to achieve this.
On our recent Home visits many parents told us that they had enjoyed sharing the book with their child and had used it to answer their child's questions. For a child that was new to the school and had missed our Induction process, it was a useful tool to break the ice upon meeting him for the first time.
As a parent myself, I remember looking long and hard for story books to read my children before they started school and was disappointed with the lack of books available. I would have greatly appreciated a book like this from school!
In future we intend to use these books in our Induction process; in the story time sessions and have kept some spare copies of the book in the School Office should any young child join our school mid-year.