Understand the range and impact of transitions that children and young people may experience
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Managing transitions in early years provisions’ from Croner-i
- ‘Children and young people’ from the Mental Health Foundation
- ‘Supporting children's transition to secondary school' from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
- ‘Bereavement’ from the Hands on Scotland website
- ‘Preparing pupils for puberty’ from the Sec Ed website
- ‘Understanding gender’ from the Gender Spectrum website
- ‘Supporting learners with autism during transition’ from the Autism Education Trust
- 'Moving house and how children can be affected’ written by Kate Hilpern
- Laser Reading Text: Transitions
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Improving educational outcomes for children and young people from travelling cultures: consultation paper’ from the Scottish government. Read the beginning of this consultation paper to see how the culture of travelling communities affects their transitions within the learning environment.
- ‘Religion, beliefs and parenting practices’ from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the influence of religious beliefs.
- ‘Class difference: Ethnicity and disadvantage’ from The Sutton Trust looks at how the academic attainment of disadvantaged pupils at 16 varies dramatically between different ethnic groups.
- ‘Experiences of poverty and educational disadvantage’ from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the impact of poverty on education.
- The NFER produced ‘Evaluation of excellence in cities primary extension: A report of the transition strand study’ which looks at the transition between primary and secondary school in more details. This was mentioned in the Teachers TV Good Practice Example video.
- The Institute for Family Studies in America has looked at ‘How instability affects kids’.
- ‘Why do kids have trouble with transitions’ from the Child Mind Institute looks at how some biological factors such as ADHD will make it harder for children to deal with transitions.
- Think And Challenge
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