Getting through Primary stage!

It's not easy to get through First of Primary. When the children have to leave Kinder Garden to ingress in the Primary School they feel fear, doubt, they are angry, they want to cry and they love all the well-known things, even their teacher.

But some times getting through Primary School is as hard for the family child as for the same kids.

Teachers are very important for the little pupils, and also for their families. That’s why we can help them to feel better. It’s important to give them some methods to control the anxiety.

First of all it’s important than the child know that it is normal to feel insecurity when we have to change the known situations. Nobody likes changes, but they are necessaries and a change it is not necessary worse.

It’s good that the pupils of the last course of Kinder Garden are especially well prepared. If they are good in all subjects, their adaptation to the new scholar stage will be easier. For a good pupil all the teachers are good, in spite of for a good teacher all the pupils are good.


It’s important to communicate to the families the most important progress of their son/daughter because we need that they don’t transmit their fear, doubt, angry, crying and their love all the well-known things to the kids. The family feelings are no so differences than the child feelings.













Is desirable a good relation between the different families, because they have a lot of commons interests and some methods that help one family have to be good for another ones. In consequence, a good teacher has to be a dynamic factor in the relation between the families. You can stimulate each family to invite others at their home sometimes, or going at the same park than other families for the children play together, or to go out one weekend at the mountain... Of course, the relation between the families is not obligatory, but it is good for the children, because it allow them to know better their class-mats and they can become close friends. And the contact between families is useful for parents’ mind. They can explain their common fears and together they can find faster the solution and the happiness. The parents calm is fundamental for the children well-being.





The adults have a lot of power over the kids.










In the last quarter of the course is important to visit the future class, to know the next teacher –if it is possible- and we have to offer possibilities to know some older children that could protect our pupils when they will be the youngest in the new playground – usually the Kinder Garden playground is separated than the Primary Garden-.

With this objective, in the third quarter of the course, in Marta Mata’s Primary and Kinder Garden School we have setting off The Reading Sponsors. Every 5 years old child have a 7 years old Reading Sponsor, who reads with him/her half hour a week. The young and the old kids are making a friendly and sponsoring relationship. The relation covers more than a person to person connection. In fact, the relationship affects all them. All 7 years pupils of 2nd A group have sponsored all 5 years pupils of P5 A. Like that, all children of 2nd B have sponsored all children of P5 B, and all kids of 2nd C have sponsored all pupils of P5 C. What's more, when they are going to read, always read the same 5 years-7 years pair, during the first two sessions half group of 2nd and their pairs went to another classroom, with the second Primary course's teacher. The most dependents 5 years kids stayed in the P5 class, with the P5 teacher. To start from the third session, all the P5 pupils will go to a Primary class. What’s more, they will be in an all-purpose classroom that is separated from the next by a sliding door. The objective of this is that little children become to feel secure even their teacher is not always in their field of vision.

To get your self-esteem back depends on you believe to be able to do, and on you believe to be beloved.



Another activity with a similar purpose, however it doesn’t systematized, it is a changing books for Sant Jordi between P5 classes and 1st of Primary groups. It pretends to nearer two groups that the course before were playing together in the playground. They only know each other by sight, but next year they will be well known, and to get one book and a bookmark from somebody heard of them will be the beginning of closer together.



Of course, one of the most important parts of get through Primary is the coordination between the actual teacher and the future teacher of the group. It’s prime to realize a transfer kid by kid, finding varied elements that allow welcome every child as good as be possible.



Some people think that it is difficult to find to oneself. In Kinder Garden we know that nobody find him/herself really, but oneself is something that one makes.