Supporting Transition and Going Back to School - Educational Psychology Service

• Supporting Transition Workbook - Gwynedd and Anglesey Educational Psychology Service - After months of lockdown, there will be mixed feelings in children transitioning back to school. While some will be excited to see their friends and go back to the old routine, others might struggle with the transition. This workbook has activities that might be useful in supporting children going back to school.
  
  
• Advice for Schools, COVID-19 - Transition and Going Back to School - Gwynedd and Môn Educational Psychology Service consultation document
  
  
• Six Nurture Principles (EdPsychInsight) - Supporting post-lockdown education using the 6 principles of Nurture by Dr Chris Moore  - https://www.epinsight.com   Twitter: @EPInsight.

• The Five Essential Steps of Emotion Coaching - Emotion coaching is an evidence-based strategy based on the research of psychologist John Gottman. It is an approach that adults can use to help children and young people recognise and understand the different emotions they experience, why they occur and find ways of dealing with them.

• Going Back to School Profile - This is a concept that we as Educational Psychologists recommend, and fits with trauma response models. Such a process is likely to assist with the sharing of experiences and feelings about the period, and fits with many of the things you are doing to promote the transition back in a constructive way. An example of a Child / Young Person's profile and Staff profile is provided here:
  • Thinking about going back to school - Example of Child / Young Person's profile (Template)
  • Staff One Page Profile - Back to School - Example of Staff Profile (Template)

• How to support children with returning to school - Educational Psychology Service - Gwynedd and Môn

• Advice for managing transitions
  
  
• Ideas to help when home schooling