Take a peak inside our new School Transition Toolkit and find out more about our new magical resources for wizards in training...
Looking for school transition resources for your year 6 class or is your child about to take the leap to secondary school? Our School Transition Toolkit is full of fun activities to help children feel prepared and confident about this next step in their lives.
About Our School Transition Toolkit
Our School Transition Toolkit is designed to support children as they embark on their journey from primary school to secondary school. Featuring 21 invaluable resources and engaging activities, our transition resources are designed to help your child navigate change and encourage a smooth transition.
Moving up to secondary school can be an exciting yet daunting time for children. Our School Transition Toolkit has been created to address their specific needs during this time, with each activity designed to target key areas. From reflecting on their time at primary school to navigating new pressures and building new friendships, our school transition activities will help your child feel confident and prepared about moving up.
Help children get to know their new school
Our school transition worksheets encourage your children to explore their new school - what is their new journey like? What will they learn? Will they join any clubs? What rules do they think their new school has? What will their uniform look like? Perhaps they can ask siblings or family members who may already attend to help them, or maybe they could browse the school's website to find out more? Helping children know what to expect on their first day can help them feel calm and confident.
Reflect on their time at primary school
Our resources can help your children to reflect on their happy memories and write down the things they wish to remember, such as in our Memory Jar activity. Think of the memory jar like a time capsule that will keep those memories safe forever! Our End of Year Interview also helps children to process their final year, helping them to self reflect and feel ready to move on.
Explore emotions and worries
Going to secondary school can come with many mixed emotions and some fears and worries too. Your child may feel excited about this new chapter in their lives, perhaps it comes with more independence and responsibility - but they may also feel worried, scared or apprehensive. We have created activities to help children write down and release their thoughts and worries and communicate any emotions they may be feeling about this new chapter in their lives.
Prepare for new pressures
Secondary school comes with lots of new pressures - peer pressure, making friends and school work can all have an impact on our mental health. Our school transition activities can help your child to know just what to do when they are faced with these new pressures and feel confident in exploring new friendships.
Look forward to the future
Let's not forget that this is an exciting step and there is lots to look forward to! Help children to think positively about their new school and create new goals. Perhaps your child's new school comes with a club they've always wanted to join or a subject they've always wanted to learn, help them realise what amazing things are coming their way.
New to the Be Happy Hub: Our Harry Potter Themed Resources!
We all need a bit of magic in our lives and our new Harry Potter resources are perfect for any wannabe wizards out there - designed to help children with anxiety, grief and self esteem.
Harry Potter and the Worry Wand
Explore worries with Harry and his Worry Wand and banish those worries with a simple word! This fun visualisation activity encourages your children to 'release' their worries with a bit of magic.
Directions: Colour in the worry wand then have your child write their worry in the cloud, then wave their imaginary wand and shout WORRYARMUS! Once your child has completed this activity, they can imagine waving their Worry Wand anywhere - visualising the worry temporarily disappearing until they are able to talk to someone they trust.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Grief
Harry lost a lot of people he loved throughout his battles with Voldemort - how do we think he managed afterwards? With the Goblet of Grief of course! This three part mindful and explorative resource will help children process their grief with Harry.
Harry Potter and the Cabinet of Confidence
Let's make a confidence potion! What ingredients do we need? Write them in the bottles and then imagine mixing it up and taking a sip. This is another fun visualisation technique children can do from anywhere when they need a dose of self esteem!
Updated for 2023: Our End of Year Printable Journal!
Our End of Year Journal - the perfect way to reflect on the school year and start the summer holidays, with over 20 mindful activities to help your children destress and process the school year. You can download this from the Be Happy Hub now!
This week's *FRIDAY FREEBIE!* - For Mailing List subscribers only
TRY Again!
The saying goes that if at first you don't succeed, try, try again! This resource is all about helping children overcome failure.
Rugby is a great game to teach the concept of trying again, as opponents battle on the field to score against each other with tries or goals - sometimes they win, sometimes they lose - but they always try again! In this fun resource, we're using the rugby 'try' to help children learn the importance of trying again.
Directions: Have your child think about a time they had to try again, can they write or draw it in our rugby ball? What did they realise after trying again? This is also a great discussion resource - you can ask children how they felt before and after they failed and had to try again.
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