The Boy’s Mummy, over at The Boy and Me, is holding a pre-Literacy carnival to put together a bank of activities to help develop pre-literacy skills.  She’s decided not to send The Boy to a state nursery class, partly because he would be one of the youngest in his year,  so instead he will start school at the beginning of his Reception year.  I have made the same decision as there is a very limited choice  of state nurseries in our area (in fact, there’s only one, and they’ve just failed their Ofsted inspection…)  I do feel a little sad about this as I have spent nearly all my teaching career in nursery classes and nursery schools.    My two will be going part time to a little preschool and, like The Boy’s mummy, I will be doing lots of things with them at home to help plug any gaps a more structured nursery year might have filled.   Continue reading →