Ensuring your child makes a successful start to school is an investment that all parents want to make, but many parents are unsure as to how they can do this. This practical guide provides parents with an overview of the prerequisite skills and competencies that children need to thrive at school. This guide does NOT advocate ‘hot-housing' children nor does it endorse the rote learning or memorisation of facts. Instead this guide provides practical examples of incidental activities and games that parents can utilise with their children at home to maximise their learning potential.