ABSTRACT
Many children entering primary school will have been attending nursery and thus have some experience of leaving home for part of the day, being in a group, and relating to staff. In a good nursery, children will have been given some individual attention and learning acquired through a mixture of work and play. At school, all learning takes place within groups; attention needs to be paid to the teacher, standing in front, presenting knowledge in a much more formal way. While the child may be excited and impressed by the pictures and the writings of pupils displayed on the walls, evidence of other childrens achievements may arouse too great an expectation about what he should soon be able to do. Seeing that the teachers do not speak about how they feel about the relationship coming to an end, students tend to assume that their teachers do not care that much about them.
