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Many schools attempt to make the transition into Reception as smooth as possible and consider the move from the child’s perspective. However, for some children, learning how to be at school actually requires them to learn to be a different person.
School requires a child to interact, act and react in ways that could be alien to them prior to starting. Some people have even suggested that schools are institutionalising children, therefore we need to be sensitive to this and try to accept children as they are, without expecting them to fit into this school-shaped mould.
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