The years between primary and secondary school (years 6 - 7) are a critical time of change in a child's life and can be tricky for some students.
A recent study led by Life Ed found that a significant number of Australian students feel underprepared and nervous about the move to secondary school.
That’s why we’re proud to launch our Guide to Thrive program, a comprehensive FREE program to assist Year 6’s in their transition into secondary school.
Our new Guide to Thrive program, developed thanks to funding from the Australian Government, includes online resources for teachers and families of Year 6 and 7 students.
Our evidence-based program shines a light on important topics including:
✔ How to ease student academic and social fears
✔ Ways to manage changing school workloads
✔ Learning the logistics of navigating to, from and around school
✔ Creating productive communication between parents, teachers and schools
✔ How to make new friends
✔ And tailoring support for students with special needs
Life Ed is proud to offer Guide to Thrive, as part of our continued commitment to supporting children with their social and emotional learning journey from the early learning years right through to the secondary school transition.
To learn more and to access FREE resources, CLICK HERE.
FAQs
Designed for teachers and families of year 6 and 7 students, Life Ed’s evidence-based Guide to Thrive program is a change tool kit that will arm students with the survival skills, expert knowledge and creative inspiration to help them thrive in secondary school and beyond.
Guide to Thrive is a free toolkit containing more than 45 evidence-based resources to help teachers guide students as they embark upon the exciting but sometimes daunting move to secondary school. It's been designed to make life easier for teachers, the program offers flexibility and most importantly saves time! The teacher/student learning process has four simple steps. These are outlined below.
1. Review the Research & Design – immerse yourself in the extensive research that underpins the Program.
2. Start with the Teacher Professional Development (PD) - self-paced and flexible, these are mapped to AITSL teaching standards.
3. Implement the practical activities in the Classroom Implementation stage - embedding the learning from the PD into practice.
4. Review the Support for Parents & Carers – including complementary resources for parents and carers to help secondary school transition.
1. Review the Research & Design – immerse yourself in the extensive research that underpins the Program.
2. Start with the Teacher Professional Development (PD) - self-paced and flexible, these are mapped to AITSL teaching standards.
3. Implement the practical activities in the Classroom Implementation stage - embedding the learning from the PD into practice.
4. Review the Support for Parents & Carers – including complementary resources for parents and carers to help secondary school transition.
Our evidence-based program shines a light on important topics including:
✔ How to ease student academic and social fears
✔ Ways to manage changing school workloads
✔ Learning the logistics of navigating to, from and around school
✔ Creating productive communication between parents, teachers and schools
✔ How to make new friends
✔ And tailoring support for students with special needs
✔ How to ease student academic and social fears
✔ Ways to manage changing school workloads
✔ Learning the logistics of navigating to, from and around school
✔ Creating productive communication between parents, teachers and schools
✔ How to make new friends
✔ And tailoring support for students with special needs
The free teacher and parent/carer resources will support students to ensure their transition from primary to secondary school is successful, healthy, socially and behaviourally positive. The resources will also focus on assisting students to increase their own capacity to manage change.
Yes, the Guide to Thrive program, was developed by Life Ed, thanks to funding from the Australian Government. Life Ed engaged the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to be their educational research and development partner to work with Life Ed on all aspects of the design, development and implementation of the student forums and report on the findings. Life Ed’s study is Australia’s largest-ever qualitative student research into school transition challenges. It included more than 80 face-to-face focus groups of 444 school children aged 10-14 from 15 schools across metropolitan, regional, and remote areas. Off the back of the study, Life Ed developed Guide to Thrive, an Australian first production of resources for teachers, students, parents and caregivers, that utilises student voice to directly inform its development.
The full study 'What Australian students say about transition to secondary school' can be accessed via the link below.
This project is supported by the Australian Government through the ‘Being Healthy, Being Active Grant’.
