Assistant Principal's Report

Free resources for families of adolescents aged 10 to 14 years

I welcome back all families to what has been a smooth commencement to 2026. I wanted to share with parents/carers a resource that the Department of Education has developed to assist with 10 to 14 year old's. I hope you find these resources useful.

The Department of Education has launched an Easing into adolescence webpage for families of students aged 10 to 14 (Grade 5 to Year 8). 

The webpage has information and strategies you can use to help ease your child into adolescence and secondary school. These include: 

• a guide to emotion coaching. Staff from The University of Melbourne’s Tuning into Teens Kids program developed the guidance.
• how to support your adolescent with their studies and more. Parenting expert and clinical psychologist Andrew Fuller helped develop this resource.

Subtitles for videos by The University of Melbourne on the webpage are available in 10 languages. You can select your preferred language on the translations page.

For questions about these resources, contact the Strategic Partnerships, Transitions and Student Voice team. You can email them at Secondary.School.Transition@education.vic.gov.au.

Lea Volpe

Assistant Principal