Starting School with Monkey Wellbeing

As you will know if you are a regular reader, I started pre-school in January. I am still not settling in terribly well, but it is just because I miss Mummy so much, and hate leaving her. I was lucky enough to be sent a new little friend to help, so I am going to share with you starting school with Monkey Wellbeing.

Monkey Wellbeing is a really cute little guy – a monkey puppet, who arrived with a pack to help me settle into school. The pack had a storybook – Monkey Goes to School, an activity guide – Monkey’s Guide to Starting School, a pack of 6 coloured pencils, some stickers and a Starting School certificate.

Mummy Monkey and I read through the book together, and I really enjoyed drawing my teacher in the activity book. It was good to talk to to Mummy about school, and things like numbers and colours.

I could show Mummy how I was feeling about school,with some smiley or sad Monkey faces. There are also some top tips for parents, and a checklist sheet too.

I do think that this pack is brilliant, but more aimed at children starting full time school, as the book talks about having lunch their, which first time part timers don’t do. But I still loved it, and everything in the pack.

Monkey Wellbeing is the idea of Helen Sadler, a Mummy to a little girl who was facing going into hospital. Helen invented the Monkey Wellbeing series for her daughter, there are lots of other ones you can buy including having an injection, visiting the dentist, having a blood test and more.

You can your own Monkey for £9.95 and pick which books and activity guides or packs you want. They start from £2.95.

Visit the Monkey Wellbeing website for full information about the different books and packs available, you can also follow on and .

Have you heard of Monkey Wellbeing before? What do you think of him?