Year 6 Transition
Welcome to Springwood High School!
Making the move from Year 6 to Year 7 is an exciting time, with lots of changes to prepare for: a new timetable, new teachers and even new friends.
This page has been set up to help you and your child to transition from Primary to Secondary Education
We are all sorry that we cannot physically welcome you into Springwood before the Summer holidays, but we are really looking forward to seeing you in September when we will have the school to ourselves for the first few days and these will be our Transition Days to help you adjust to life at secondary school.
Year 6 Transition Information - September 2022
If you are due to join us in September 2022 please see the information below:
Welcome to Springwood High School - Parents Evening Presentation - April 2022
The below resources and summer tasks will help you and your child to prepare for their transition to secondary education.
Useful Resources
To help students and parents make the move a little easier we’ve created the following resources that we hope you will find useful:
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
BE AWESOME, GO BIG - YEAR 6 TRANSITION PROJECT
Be Awesome, Go Big is a package to help Year 6 students transition into Year 7. It can be used by students and parents at home or in school with teachers in class. It is designed to be motivational, helpful and reassuring and to help young people feel valued, loved, encouraged and equipped for the journey ahead.
The resources are based on bestselling children’s books You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed and Go Big: The secondary school survival guide by Matthew Burton.
We can highly recommend the books as great reads for both students and parents.
BE AWESOME, GO BIG - TRANSITION RESOURCES FOR PARENTS
These resources provide information, tips and questions to help you open up discussion with your child about the transition and help prepare them for starting secondary school:
BE AWESOME, GO BIG - TRANSITION RESOURCES FOR YEAR 6 PUPILS
These resources have been created to prepare Year 6 pupils for the transition to secondary school.
The lessons are based on the books You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed and Go Big by Matthew Burton. Each session will take pupils through some big ideas to help them on their way to secondary school.
Children should work through each interactive lesson, recording their answers in the accompanying workbook:
Safer Schools Partnership
Springwood High School is part of the Safer Schools Partnership and we have our very own Police Officer that comes into school to give us help and advice on lots of things.
Meet Tory from our Safer Schools Team below:
Transition Work and Summer Tasks
Your child will be asked to complete a series of tasks during the summer holidays, prior to their first day at Springwood High School. Please click on the links below to view and download the tasks.
Maths - Transition Taster Booklet
Please click on the link below to view the Maths Taster booklet that has some interesting information about the Maths department as well as some tasks for you to do while you are preparing to transition.
Maths - Year 6 - Taster Booklet
Eedi
Eedi Summer Club makes learning maths easy and fun. For a free trial sign up before the 28th June by clicking the link below:
https://eedi.com/summer-club?via=friends-of-eedi
Maths - Numerise Website - Transition Work
Numerise is a maths app/website which incorporates a specifically designed course called 'Secondary Ready' to help Year 6 students who will be transitioning to Year 7 in September.
The 'Secondary Ready' course will help keep our current year 6 children mathematically fresh over this difficult period and help bridge the gap between Year 6 and Year 7 maths.
Current Year 6 parents and students can sign up to Numerise free of charge until September. If you wish to try this out please follow the link below to sign up.
English
The booklet below introduces the English Department and includes details of the Summer Task they wish you to complete and hand in when you join Springwood High School in September.
Year 6 English Booklet and Summer Task
Science
The Science Department is looking forward to welcoming you in September. Below is a short task for you to complete before you return to school:
Lab Safety - Spot the Hazard Summer Task
They have also put together a short video from one of the Science Labs, Click here to watch it, it may help you with your Summer Task!
Additional tasks will be available for download in due course
Transition Activities
Transition Activity 1- Reading a Timetable
Have a look at the PowerPoint and see if you can work out how to read a timetable. This is an actual Year 7 timetable. Don't worry if you find it tricky - your Form Tutor will be able to help you with your real one!
Click on image to view
Transition Activity 2 - Watch This......
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Food Technology
Looking forward to Food Tech classes? Then why not take a look at some of the dishes you will be doing when you join us in September.
If you want to give your cooking skills a trial then why not have a go at Miss T's - Chocolate Orange 1,2,3 Biscuits.