During the second term of the school year primary schools in Windhoek enrol children for Grade 1. At Wake up! this year a formal Learning Readiness Assessment was done of 22 of our learners who will leave us for primary school, to see how ready they are. It is clear that the longer children have stayed with us in pre-primary, the better they are prepared for the next phase. Although we do take in children who only have one year left before going into Grade 1, to prepare them for an English medium school in one year is often not realistic.