Ready, Set, School!

Flying Start Children’s Therapy offers intensive school readiness programs every January.  Ready, Set School is a program designed to support children with the transition from home, childcare and kindergarten to a formal schooling.  The sessions can also help to ease anxiety about expectations and transition to schooling. They provide opportunities to practice communication, behavioural and emotional regulation skills that can support learning once at school.

Our Ready, Set, School Program is specifically designed to support children with the skills they require to transition into Primary School. The Program is designed and facilitated by experienced Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists and qualified teachers. Through fun, interactive activities, children are supported to be more independent and confident in their learning, emotional and social regulation and self-care.  The program acknowledges that every child is unique and develops at their own pace with their own strengths, interests, and approach to learning.  

Structure of the program:

The program will include an initial assessment/parent interview,  4 x 2.5 hour sessions in January, parent information, and a personalised report for your child and recommendations to support them moving forward into their formal education.

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Our 2025 Ready, Set, School program will run over four days on the 14th, 15th, 21st and 22nd of January. The initial assessment will be scheduled in accordance with the family's availability beforehand.

The group is co-facilitated by a qualified teacher and targets the following areas:

• Development of classroom routines and expectations – E.g. waiting turns to talk, listening during whole class instructions, marking the roll, lining up, asking to go to the bathroom, group work, show and share, and transitions.

• Engagement in educational learning -  Your child will have exposure to a range of activities with shapes, colours, numbers, movements, words, and songs, and practice fine motor skills and pencil grips. Children will engage with developmental movement patterns to support cognitive function, regulation, spatial perception, and visual perception skills required to support handwriting. 

• Fine and gross motor tasks – assessment of pencil grasp and fine motor skills, handwriting and drawing activities, scissor skills.

• Emotional regulation - Children will be supported to regulate their bodies and emotions in an appropriate way, and practice strategies for managing themselves in various circumstances. 

• Initiating social skills – E.g. asking a peer to play, asking peer to be partner, asking to share equipment, turn taking tasks, negotiation, learning about similarities and differences, working in a team setting

• Increasing problem solving abilities – asking for help, speaking up if we need support, managing conflict and dealing with challenges and building resilience

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