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Helping vulnerable pupils to handle the transitions of school life

The challenges of the many transitions that pupils go through in school can be incredibly difficult to overcome for vulnerable young people. Nicola Marshall offers some useful strategies

“By building a child’s social and emotional capabilities we enable children to be happily engaged with others and with society, and to learn, to develop fully, to attain and to achieve. In essence, it delivers school-ready, life-ready, and child-ready members of society.”
Early Intervention: The Next Steps (The Allen Report), 2011.

Why is it hard for some children and young people to adapt to change? This has been the big question for me while researching content for a guide on transition – and also in my own experience with my three adopted children. I know they do find it hard, that’s obvious (sometimes), but why exactly? I think there are three areas of our development that are paramount to being able to understand why transitions and change are so hard...

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