{"id":413,"date":"2021-07-12T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/?page_id=413"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:17:35","slug":"top-tips-for-transition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/resources-from-our-counselling-team\/top-tips-for-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips for Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Transition Tips for Parents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/schoolcounselling\/uploads\/sites\/18109\/2025\/06\/02131611\/A4-Transition-Change-Parent-Guide-1.pdf\">A4- Transition, Change &#8211; Parent Guide (1)<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/schoolcounselling\/uploads\/sites\/18109\/2023\/06\/21200644\/Transition-recommendations-from-Primary-School-Cousnelling-team-.docx\">Transition recommendations from Primary School Counselling team<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph_-jYflYf841C\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"text_k-_fmHjc_a3\" class=\"TextBodySpecialEmph color_TextEmph\">Go easy on yourself!<\/span><span id=\"text_X6_fmHzc_a3\" class=\"\"> Remember everyone is different and some young people take to secondary school quite quickly while others need a little more time to settle in. Either way, it is a natural part of this next step in your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph_CcYflYP841C\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"text_9A4aylER9M4\" class=\"TextBodyEmph color_TextEmph\">Prepare the night before,<\/span><span id=\"text_M34ayl_R9M4\" class=\"\"> set out your clothes and if you can, pack your schoolbag to reduce any morning stressors. Try to go easy on yourself and expect to forget an item, or to bring the right textbook or end up in the wrong class at some point during this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph_PVYflY9841C\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"text_a1UY8mf4Z07\" class=\"\">You will pick it up eventually and within a month or two, you will feel like you have always been at Secondary school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph_cOYflYv741C\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"text_A5TaeEP6QG0\" class=\"\">See the weblinks for loads more tips: <\/span><a id=\"text_zBTaeEf6QG0\" class=\"TextBodyEmph color_TextEmph\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/tags\/zh4wy9q\/starting-secondary-school\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Starting secondary school &#8211; BBC Bitesize<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph_B8ZflYf941C\" dir=\"ltr\"><a id=\"text_RHKbQRbZsm9\" class=\"TextBodyEmph color_TextEmph\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/articles\/z4rkd6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Parents&#8217; Toolkit: Top tips \u2013 secondary &#8211; BBC Bitesize<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"paragraph_bwYflY9941C\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"text_IwChhiorQp8\" class=\"\">Helen Cosgrove, Secondary School Counsellor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transition Tips for Parents A4- Transition, Change &#8211; Parent Guide (1) Transition recommendations from Primary School Counselling team Go easy on yourself! Remember everyone is different and some young people take to secondary school quite quickly while others need a little more time to settle in. Either way, it is a natural part of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/resources-from-our-counselling-team\/top-tips-for-transition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Tips for Transition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12907,"featured_media":0,"parent":359,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-413","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/413\/revisions\/984"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/schoolcounselling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}