Transition Lesson 1: 'All About Me'

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• Primary Education

Introduction

A series of lessons designed to help you teach your students about the differences they will experience as they move up to KS3 and secondary school. There are slides within the presentations that you can easily customise to make them relevent to your school and local area, meaning the information you share with your students will be as relevant to them as possible.

Instructions

Simply save the lesson to your personal or school folder on Lessonup, then open it within the editor to change whatever you need to! 

The more personalised you can make it to your own students transitions, the more they will learn from it. Why not send it home for your students to do with their adults at home!

All About Me

Year 6 to Year 7 Transition

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In this session we will:

• Think about what we enjoy about Year Six

• Celebrate some of our amazing talents and skills

• Think about some of the things that we need to practise before we move onto our new school

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A.A. Milne

This lesson links to the PSHE Association programme of study (KS1-5):

H24. problem-solving strategies for dealing with emotions, challenges and change, including the transition to new schools

H27. to recognise their individuality and personal qualities

H28. to identify personal strengths, skills, achievements and interests and how

these contribute to a sense of self-worth

H36. strategies to manage transitions between classes and key stages

What Do I Enjoy About Y6?

Ask pupils to think about all of their memories from Primary school. This is a great way to share some positive moments. Remember, if pupils add content which is unsuitable for sharing, this can be seen from the teacher's view before it is revealed to the group.

Consider removing pupil names from their contributions and ask pupils to guess 'who said what'?

How Am I Feeling About Starting My New School?

This should give teachers an indication of the mood of the group. Consider using this information after the session to feed into pastoral support for key pupils.

All information in LessonUp is GDPR compliant so you can be assured that pupil data will remain with you.

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A.A. Milne

You should always let a trusted grown up know if you feel worried.

In our school, you can:

• talk to your teacher

• Write a note for the worry box

• send a text to the school office

Childline: 0800 1111 

https://www.childline.org.uk/get-support/

Consider amending this to suit your school/academy Safeguarding Policy.

Who Said It?

Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think

When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

This is a fun activity to remind pupils about some famous quotes about positivity. Consider displaying these around your classroom or returning to this slide across the term to consider what each quote means to your pupils.

What Skills and Talents Do You Have?

This could be a pictorial, written or drawn activity. Pupils who are accessing the session via their own device might want to type directly into the lesson but you may consider uploading responses which have been drawn or even a photo of the pupil undertaking their 'talent'.

If you are choosing to share these slides as a flipped learning activity, you may receive some excellent contributions from home!

Write a One Sentence Slogan Which is All About You and Your Amazing Talents

This slide extends the session; should you require it.

Contributions can be uploaded into LessonUp following the session and shared/ returned to later on in the term.

You may also consider sharing these with the feeder secondary school to offer contextual information about your pupils (according to your information sharing policies)

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it." — Muhammed Ali

It is always good to celebrate

the things that make us special.

It is also useful to look at some of

the things that we find a bit trickier. 

At this point, you may wish to remind pupils about the Safeguarding slide at the start of the session.

What might we need to learn or practise 

so that we are ready for Secondary School? 

Consider devoting some time to this slide to enable pupils to have the time and space to consider what they are really wanting to know. 

You can adapt every slide within LessonUp to suit your school's context.

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A.A. Milne

In Our Next Session, We will:

• Look at our worries in a bit more detail

• Think about how we can relax when we are feeling worried.

Did you enjoy this session?