Starting Secondary School

Use pictures to help your Year 6 child

Have you used #visualexplorer cards?

I used them with a Year 6 girl recently.

I asked her to choose images that conjured up how she wanted to feel when she started in Year 7 in Secondary School in September.

She told me how each one represented how she wanted to feel; "turtle can find its way around anywhere", "waves are calming" "Manity reminds me of childhood and playfulness", "dog with hat is funny" "green zip is about making connections" "chicken is a new start", "flowers round the shutter is like freedom".

Then I asked her to choose images that represented how she did not want to feel.