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What schools look at when a child enrols, as a questionnaire for the parent: knowledge of the world, counting and letters, speech, self-control and working in a group.

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1.Knows their full name, age, town and their parents’ names

2.Can explain how winter differs from summer and name the seasons in order

3.Tells farm animals from wild ones, vegetables from fruit — and can say what the difference is

4.Uses "yesterday", "tomorrow", "morning" and "evening" correctly

5.Counts to ten and back, and understands that seven is more than five

6.Recognises most letters and can come up with a word starting with a given sound

7.Can share ten objects equally between two people and check that it came out even

8.Repeats four or five words from memory after hearing them once

9.Hears the whole instruction out and does not start before you finish

10.Finishes what they started, even once it has got boring

11.Can sit at a table with one task for fifteen or twenty minutes

12.Takes "not now" calmly and waits for their turn

13.Joins a new group of children easily and finds someone to play with

14.Asks an adult for help in words rather than tears

15.Keeps to the rules of a game even when losing

16.Says goodbye at the door of nursery or a club without tears

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