Student Wellbeing
Transition Mondays - Preparing for our 2026 Year!
Transition Mondays
Term 4, 2025
Monday 24th Nov - 12.30-1.30pm
Monday 1st Dec - 2.30-3.20pm (due to swimming this week)
Monday 8th Dec - 12.30-1.30pm
Monday 15th Dec - 10.00-11.00am (Meet your 2026 Teacher)
Transitioning to a new year level in Primary School is a significant milestone in a young person’s life. It brings about various changes, including shifts in friendships, new teachers, cognitive growth and emotional development. This period can be both exciting and challenging for both children and parent/carers. Understanding the transition process and offering appropriate support can help children embrace the changes and thrive in their new environment.
Our Term 4 transition sessions aim to help prepare students for the year ahead, while building relationships, connection and a sense of belonging and safety between student-to-student and student-to-teachers through a range of social and emotional activities to assist with the transition to a new space and new cohort of students for 2026.
Each learning space start each transition session with the WELCOME CIRCLE, where the School Values and the 3Bs can be reinforced, as well as using this time for some of the Get-To-Know-You questions to act as Positive Primers before commencing the focus task for each session.
Activities included in the Welcome Circle may include:
Greeting activity - Brief Get-To-Know-You Activity
Values / Expectations - School Values & 3Bs (explain one in detail eg. what does RESPECT look like, sound like, feel like)
Announcements - explaining the focus of the session and briefly what they will be doing today. (Also allow students with special announcements to share)
Positive Primers - Students go around the circle and answer a statement from My Hopes for Next Year or Positive Get-To-Know-You Questions
WWW and Tracking the Speaker
Example activities for the sessions may include some of the following activities or similar tasks:
Please see this PARENT ARTICLE with many practical ideas for ways you can help your child transition smoothly from this year to the next:
Warm Regards,
Jenny Todd
(Student Wellbeing Leader)