Starting school guide

Small child, big leap: what school demands

Holding the pencil correctly is just one of the challenges that children need to be familiar with from Year 1.

(Bild: africa-studio.com (Olga Yastremska and Leonid Yastremskiy))

A new school year has begun - this time is particularly exciting for the so-called Taferlklassler. And not without good reason: the long list of skills that prospective schoolchildren need to have is challenging. Krone+ shows what your child needs to be able to do now.

Whether a child is ready for school is determined at school enrolment, which largely takes place in January of the year in which the child is due to start elementary school in the fall. Roughly speaking, the prerequisite is that the child should be able to follow the lessons without being physically, linguistically or mentally overtaxed. If they are certified as ready for school, they will start in September - and by then at the latest, they will need the following cognitive, social and motor skills, which are now important for every child: