Farewell and Welcome: A Neat Finish and a Good Start

This pack is designed to offer a flexible resource to support teachers in enabling children to cope effectively with transition to secondary school. Planned and positive induction is effective in ensuring that the progress children have made in one educational setting is sustained through a period of change. The pack provides teacher notes and a variety of activities and photocopiable worksheets. It offers a resource for enabling not only pupils but also schools, teachers and parents, to deal with change successfully. The pack considers the psychological aspects of change and through practical activities, helps the emotional robustness of children at a time of predictable change. This pack will help children gain the coping skills to put this change into a new perspective.