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Getting Ready for School (New Entrants Information)
We are delighted to welcome you to Valley Invicta Primary School at Kings Hill! We hope your child will enjoy every aspect of their learning experience with us.
This page aims to give you useful information to help them at the start of their school journey.
Starting school means your child will encounter a range of new activities and routines to get used to. Some of these will require them to do things more independently than they have before.
Studies show that the relationship between parents and children is the most important influence on a child’s development, and there’s plenty you can do at home to support this. While your child is with you or another caregiver, you can practise the skills shown in this booklet together.
Some skills may take time to develop, so it is helpful to introduce them gradually into their daily routine.
Our Getting Ready For School booklet is designed to help you and your child prepare for the start of their educational journey. It includes information about what your child should be able to do before they start school and words they should know and be able to use. You will receive a hard copy of this booklet with all your transition information, but you can also find it here.
At the bottom of this page you can find links to a series of videos we have made which reflect parts of the booklet, which you can watch with your child.
Additionally, below, you can find a list of useful links to other information that will help your child get ready for school.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people
https://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/kent-family-hub
https://local.kent.gov.uk/kb5/kent/directory/service.page?id=eMN69FEGp5w
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09g447t
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/articles/z6bgnrd
https://www.youtube.com/@CosmicKidsYoga
https://www.youtube.com/@GoNoodle
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zhhf92p
You can find our Parent Handbook here.
Video Links - Getting Ready For School
I can ask a grown up for help
I can complete age appropriate puzzles independently
I can draw a face
I can introduce myself
I can name the colours of the rainbow
I can play games using dice
I can say please and thank you
I can share toys with my friends
I can sit and listen to a story
I can tidy away things I’ve used
I can touch count to five
I can turn the pages of a book
I can use scissors
I know at least five nursery rhymes
I can wash my hands
Words to know (solo phrases)
Transition video (pre-school to primary)
Virtual Tour
Other Useful Documents
Starting School Parent Presentation
New Entrants Curriculum Powerpoint
KCC Starting School Guide for Parents
Read Write Inc Pre Cursive Letters
In Year Admissions
In Year Casual Admissions are admissions which take place outside of the normal entry to school. An IYCAF (in year common application form) needs to be completed and returned to the school for process. If a place is not available a refusal letter and a request for going onto the waiting list will be sent out. Click the link to download the IYCAF form or alternatlively visit www.kent.gov.uk
Waiting List
The academy will operate a waiting list for each year group. Where in any year the academy receives more applications for places than there are places available, a waiting list will operate until the end of (the first term after the beginning of the school year/the end of the academic year). This will be maintained by the Academy Trust and it will be open to any parent to ask for his or her child’s name to be placed on the waiting list, following an unsuccessful application.
Children’s position on the waiting list will be determined solely in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. Where places become vacant they will be allocated to children on the waiting list in accordance with the oversubscription criteria. The waiting list will be reordered in accordance with the oversubscription criteria whenever anyone is added to or leaves the waiting list.