Roni Moore Children's Stories
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Jodie Starts School
Jodie was four years old, she was going to start school tomorrow. She
was very excited about it and even had a red and grey school uniform,
and a bag and fleece with St Mary’s Infant School badge on it. She felt
such a big girl going to school. She told her sister, Amy, that when she
too became a big girl like her she would also be allowed to go to
school. Jodie had her bath and went to bed early that evening, and was
up bright and early the next morning. She was almost too excited to eat
her breakfast but her mother said she must eat it. Then afterwards she
washed and brushed her teeth. She dressed herself in her school uniform
and her mother tied her hair in a pony tail and put in a red bobble to
match the red of her uniform, telling her how nice she looked with her
dark brown hair and sparkling blue eyes. At eight fifteen they set out
for school. It wasn’t far so they decided that they would walk and Amy
was pushed in her buggy.
They soon got to St Mary’s school gates and Jodie started to feel
nervous. There were so many children here she did not know but she had
met a few when she visited the school before the summer holidays. At
home she had felt big and very grown up but now she was here she felt
very small and a bit shy. There seemed to be a lot of very big children
in the big playground that they had to go through to get to the
reception classes playground. So while they waited she stood close to
her mummy. When the bell rang she felt really scared. Her mummy took her
by the hand to her classroom. Her teacher spoke to all the children. She
told them where their coat pegs were and each child had their name and a
picture on it. Jodie’s picture was a pretty butterfly. Most of the
children looked as scared as she felt and then it was time for her mummy
to go, but she told her she would come back to get her after school was
over; it would be no time at all. Jodie’s lip trembled. She wanted to
cry but she remembered what her mummy had told her. She had said when
she first started school she might be a bit frightened at first and this
was alright, but she would soon get used to it and enjoy making new
friends, and learning new things. So Jodie stopped feeling sad and
listened to her teacher, Miss Edwards. Her teacher was young and pretty
and reminded her of her mummy. Miss Edwards told the children to sit
down at a table, then she called three children at a time out to the
front and asked them their names. When they told her she stuck a sticker
on them with their name and the picture that was on their coat peg. The
children were also shown a drawer that had their picture and name on it,
they were told this would hold their school work. Jodie’s drawer was the
middle one. The top one belonged to a girl called Megan and the bottom
one belonged to a little boy called Nathan. They were also on the same
table. It was all so exciting. Jodie soon forgot all about her mother
and Amy. She loved her classroom with bright colours and pictures on the
walls. There was part of the class that had been made into a play area.
It had all good things in it like dressing up things and lots of toys
and two tables. Her teacher told them that when the weather was a bit
warmer they would have water in one and sand in the other. There were
dolls' prams and toy buggies, toy cars, trolleys and bikes. Everything looked so much fun.
When the bell rang again the children were allowed to play outside in
the reception playground. It was smaller than the big children’s
playground and their's had grass and climbing frames, and a horse on a
spring and a seesaw just like the park where her mother often took her.
So before she knew it Miss Edwards told the children it was nearly time
to go home. Jodie had enjoyed herself so much she really didn’t want to
go home yet. Then mummy came into the classroom with the other parents
to collect her. All of a sudden she couldn’t wait to go home and tell
mummy and Amy all the fun things she did that day. Jodie had decided she
loved school and the two special friends she sat with. She couldn’t wait
for the morning to come so she could go to school again.