Moving from primary to secondary schools is an exciting time but for many children and parents alike it can be a daunting prospect as it includes several major changes. We have pulled together some useful information, advice and guidance to support children in transition year groups.
This lesson is designed to help young people identify positive workplace behaviours and understand how they can practise these in everyday life to always present a good impression at work. The lesson explores the importance of appropriate communication and body language and responding assertively to different workplace situations.
The Northern School of Art is not only the leading provider of specialist creative art & design degrees in the north, but one of the best across the UK. Our Church Square campus in Hartlepool is a mix of modern and early 19th century buildings that have fantastic facilities, resources and staff. They are the school for students that are serious about their creative career.Explore this page to see some of our resources and to hear from our students & Vice Principal Pat Chapman!
Take a look at the teaching spaces at Stockton Riverside College. You can explore workshops in Aviation, Art, Beauty Therapy, Brickwork, Dance, Electricla Installation, Hairdressing as well as the Higher Education Centre, Infinity Kitchen, Painting and Decorating, and Woodwork.
Everything you need to teach essential skills. The Skills Builder Hub gives you access to a huge array of free resources for building essential skills – plus an easy way to track progress.
Come and take a tour of an Aircraft Training Cabin, Beauty Training Rooms, Bricklaying, Plumbing, Plastering, Engineering, Carpentry and Joinery workshops, the Childcare Nursery, our Digital Suites, Hair Salons, Fitness Centre, the Health and Social Care wing and the Sports Hall.
These activities are all about changing attitudes from “I can’t” to “I can”. Children will learn strategies to help them bounce back and to recognise the power of positive thinking.identify what resilience is, and what it looks like explain or demonstrate helpful ways to manage emotional responses to difficulties, challenges or setbacks reframe unhelpful feelings about the outcome of a difficulty or challenge identify and demonstrate ways to bounce back from a setback
This quick-fire activity introduces students to the idea that certain personality traits might lend themselves to particular jobs or industries, by tasking them with pairing traits to certain jobs.
NERAP is a collaboration of the five universities in the North East of England. Their vision is to improve higher education progression in the region and to ensure that young people in the North East are fully supported to make informed decisions about their future. Working alongside key stakeholders, they focus outreach activity where added value can be achieved collaboratively. NERAP create targeted and progressive interventions for students currently under-represented in higher education. Full details of their outreach provision, as well as a history of visits to your school can be viewed via your teacher dashboard online.
A Teacher’s Guide to Inspiring Futures in the North East
The North East Raising Aspiration Partnership offers a full suite of resources for KS2 and KS4 teachers to deliver a full introduction to higher education in the North East in the classroom. Each module contains the lesson plans and presentations you need to deliver an engaging lesson. All worksheets and resources are provided in a downloadable version of these popular guides and can be accessed completely free of charge by registering as a teacher on NERAP’s website: https://www.nerap.ac.uk/teachersguide
To make young people more self-aware and to celebrate their successes. To allow young people to develop confidence in their own abilities. To involve parents/carers to support their child’s skills development and share in their successes.
Explore Middlesbrough College’s £100 million campus from the comfort of your classroom. You can explore different subject areas including Construction and Engineering, Sports, Beauty, Health Care, Creative and Digital, the STEM Centre as well as lots of other areas including labs, theatres, fashion classroom, have a go in the demo kitchen, as well as the dance studio.
This resource supports primary teachers in developing pupils’ awareness of the film industry and the wide variety of interesting careers that are open to them. Exploring inspiring careers in Foley sound effects, make-up, costume designing, editing and more, learners will be able to appreciate the broad range of talent that goes into making a film and bringing it to the screen. The activities are accompanied by a quiz, film clips, Behind The Scenes videos, curriculum links and activity sheets, and require pupils to tap into a vast array of creative, communication and team work skills. The resource is most suitable for young people aged 7-11 and can be used in any educational setting across the UK.
Take the Buzz Quiz to develop self-awareness and start thinking about careers. This fun, quick quiz helps young people to explore their strengths and preferences, and explore links between their personality, working styles and job types.
Explore the facilities at Darlington College using the Quick Navigation Menu in the Reception to go straight to the area you are interested in.
Books Beyond Words are award-winning wordless picture stories co-created with and for people who find pictures easier to understand than words. This includes people with learning disabilities and/or autism, people with cognitive or communication difficulties and people who have difficulty with reading, covering many topics, one including employment. Here at TVCA, we have purchased 5 e-books for your school to download:
1) A family at work
2) A Good Day’s Work
3) Choosing My First Job
4) George Gets Smart
5) Making Friends
All of our books tell a story, but because there are no words, they also let the reader tell their own story – whatever it is that they see in the pictures. How they interpret the pictures can tell you a lot about their understanding of a situation, experiences they have had and the things that matter to them.
The picture stories do provide information, but the main aim of the books is to open up conversations – conversations that make it possible to check for understanding, support decision-making, share past experiences, prepare for new ones, and explore feelings.
As communication tools, the stories empower people. They remove barriers to understanding, reduce anxiety and enable people to make their voice heard.
Please read and download the ‘quick guide to using Beyond Words resources’ and see the link to the elearning module which is specially tailored for education https://booksbeyondwords.co.uk/elearning/education-module should you wish to undertake this.
The transition toolkit is designed to support young people in making the transition from primary to secondary school. The toolkit also aims to: Help primary and secondary schools support their students through this period, Offer support for students on how they can begin to develop valuable skills for education and the future world of work, Provide guidance for parents on their child’s transition to secondary school and how they can best support.
