Questions to ask your child at the end of a school day

Here are some questions and prompts you may like to ask your child after a day at school? Many of these are open- ended and encourage students to offer answers that require reflection and deeper thinking. We often use these at schools to ‘check in’ with our students and we hope you may find these useful.

• What was the best thing that happened at school today? (What was the worst thing that happened at school today?)
• Tell me something that made you laugh today.
• Where is the coolest place at the school?
• Tell me a weird word that you heard today. (Or something weird that someone said.)
• If I called your teacher tonight, what would s/he tell me about you?
• How did you help somebody today?
• How did somebody help you today?
• Tell me one thing that you learned today?
• When were you the happiest today?
• Tell me something good that happened today.
• What do you think you should do/learn more of at school?
• What do you think you should do/learn less of at school?
• Who in your class do you think you could be nicer to?
• Where do you play the most at recess?
• Who is the funniest person in your class? Why are they so funny?
• What was your favourite part of lunch?
• If you got to be the teacher tomorrow, what would you do?