School Readiness

If your child is ready to start school, it can be a wonderful and exciting period in his/her life. On the other hand, if your child is not ready for formal education it can be a total nightmare for him/her. 

School Readiness Assessments 

Is performed to determine whether your child is ready to benefit from formal education. 

The importance of school readiness at the time when learners enter school is a well-known fact from the literature (Abott-Shim, Lambert, & McCarthy, 2003: 191-214). Only when the learner’s school readiness is intact he/she can perform to the best of his/her abilities, thus fulfil his/her own potential. There is thus a direct relationship between school readiness and school performance.

Dr Susan le Roux
(Director, Optima Academy) 

Aspects of development that are considered to be critical indicators of the children’s degree of school readiness:

    1. Physical, sensory and motor development
    2. Cognitive development (which includes intellectual, perceptual, language and numerical development, reasoning ability, memory, and general knowledge)
    3. Emotional and social development

Subtests included in the assessment:

  • Visual perception
  • Spatial orientation
  • Number Concept
  • Language and experience
  • Draw a person
  • Auditory Perception
  • Fine Motor Coordination
  • Gross Motor Coordination