Today is the last day of Little Miss C's first half a term at school proper. As she'd been at our local infant school for her pre-school year I'd always assumed that it would be quite an easy transition into reception, and in many ways it has, but at the same time I'd also underestimated somewhat how different it also all is due to that extra year of age. LMC is now four, and will turn 5 later in the school year and that seems to be an age when children are so much more aware of the other children they're at school with and the concept of friends. There are children in her class that she ... read more