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Moving Up Resources

Moving Up Transition Project

Moving Up is a home learning transition programme for families to do together to manage and support the change from primary to secondary school.

£225.00

The transition from primary to secondary school is an important life transition that can affect children’s attainment and wellbeing in the longer term.

Primary schools offer more predictability, usually with the same teacher and classroom throughout the year. A well-planned transition between primary and secondary phases will help remove any barriers to learning and enable them to reach their full academic potential as well as feeling less isolated.

Approaching, and through the process of transition and induction, children and parents are often anxious. Moving Up offers a way to ensure information is shared in a positive and accessible way. This is a key window of opportunity to reach out to parents, engage with them and begin to establish a strong two-way relationship which can last right through secondary school. In addition, if needs or problems are identified early on help can be offered and some problems can be nipped in the bud.

Parents have told us that they sometimes feel disempowered and find it hard to connect with secondary schools because of their size, not knowing key staff, children not wanting them around and communication not being very accessible. Moving Up presents a solution to tackling this.

Parental engagement is still a powerful factor in young people succeeding at secondary school but many parents aren’t sure about how they can support their child and can feel anxious about the move to secondary school and about parenting as children become adolescent. No longer meeting parents regularly at the school gate can result in feelings of isolation and a lack support.

Moving Up helps schools to work with parents as partners to develop mutual trust, empathy, respect and acceptance.

Mouse Club resources are continually reviewed and renewed. This is very much influenced by our continued work with schools. If you would like to work with us to further develop this and other parental engagement resources, receive free trial materials to support this pack and contribute to parental engagement through our partnership networks, please consider becoming a PEN member.  

 

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Categories: Home learning, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Parental Engagement, Transition Tags: Home Learning resources, KS3, Managing Change KS2, Moving Up, Parental Engagement, Transition
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Moving Up is an adaptable transition programme that can be started in the last half term of year 6, and continued through the summer holidays into the first half term of year 7. Both primary and secondary schools can work in partnership with families to prepare for this momentous transition. Where primaries and secondaries are not able to work in tandem, resources can be purchased separately by each phase and used independently of each other.</p> The Project pack consists of:
  • Part 1: Getting Ready: Home Learning activities for children to do with their families covering the following topics: Myself; Getting Organised; Coping with Change; Memories; Routines.
  • Part 1: Getting Ready: Guidance notes.
  • Part 2: Settling In: Attendance; Friendships; Learning; Being Healthy; Community.
  • Part 2: Settling In: Guidance notes.
  • 12 Parent/Carer tip sheets: Feeling Good; Coping with Changes; Getting Organised; Routines; Keeping Your Child in School; Keeping in Touch; Bullying; Supporting Learning; Getting on with Teenagers; Keeping Healthy in Body and Mind; Getting Support; Information and Support for Parents & Carers.
Feedback from schools using Moving Up has told us that:
  • Involvement of senior leadership in the project is essential to enable change in policy and practice.
  • Building positive relationships with parents as early as possible is critical, including through working with linked primary schools.
  • Well timed informal and interactive events can help to break down barriers.
  • Getting staff to think from a parent’s perspective and enabling a culture of friendly, human and positive communication can have a big impact on parents.
  • Download our free broadsheet to read more about the project and how it has already worked for schools.

What schools and parents have told us about Moving Up:

“We just think, why have we not done this before? It’s bringing some warmth and humanity back into things – it’s what we were before targets and Ofsted took over. Being too target driven drives the humanity out. Our core business is relationship-based and we’d forgotten.” Deputy Headteacher, Reddish Vale “It has helped children prepare better and become ours faster. Pastorally I think it’s helped immensely.” Assistant Head, Byrchall High School
“I feel more welcome in school because they’ve done that. We’ve had conversations and there’s some kind of rapport – I feel listened to. I feel more confident around school and they want to work in partnership with me and not just as they wish. I’m taken notice of. ”Parent, Argoed High School</p>
Tried and tested since 2013, we have now amended Moving Up to fit with the current COVID-19 situation and reviewed and renewed all the tip sheets and resources. Read our blog post on managing change to find out why a focus on transition is more important than ever.

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