The transition from primary to
middle school is important in the lives of children and their families, yet
research has shown that transitions can be stressful for children. The journey
from being the elder most in the primary to being the youngest in the middle
school can take some time to cover. Transition includes changes in environment,
circumstances and relationships. The students will gain new freedoms and have
new experiences and new responsibilities. To make this phase balanced and not
overwhelming for the students, we need to make conditions as similar as
possible, so that changes occur in a gradual way over a period of time.
The Transition program for the
students of Form 5 was a wholesome mix of interactions with their future
teachers and getting the feel of the environment in the middle school. This program encourages children to
anticipate change in a positive light. It will mark the steps along the way,
and give children something to look forward to.
As part of its commitment to
ensuring that every student achieves their full potential, the program had its
first step as talking to the students about it, listening to their fears and
things they are looking forward to etc. Well, the Laptop in this are takes the
first place. Good communication is essential to making this work well.
At the next level, we had some teachers from
the middle school come and interact with them in their Form 5 room. This was
linked to the unit that we were currently studying. We had Math, English,
history and art teachers come to our classroom. This helped a lot to control
anxieties and make the interaction smooth and informal.
The next big day was the day of
Transition where the students spend a full day in the middle school and get the
feel of ‘A typical day in middle school’. They were dropped by their form tutor
and had lessons and interactions with their future teachers following a time
table. The students had to say so much when they were back the next day -Megha Arora
Form Tutor 5
“Taking our bags along to the
middle school was a different feeling” Anhad Viswanath
“We have to carry our stuff
around with us and move to new rooms for every lesson. This is exciting also
but scary too. I might lose my things” – Ishaan Kedia
“The trip around the school was
exciting, everything seemed bigger than primary, even the washrooms”- Saideep
Ganesh
“Thank you for the opportunity to
be the guests at middle school for one day. You have given us a chance to visit
and explore middle school, I’m not scared to go there now”- Tanmay Bajaj
“I loved the Design and
technology class as we did lots of creative things in it and I love being
creative and it’s interesting. We designed our name plates using wood metal and
plastic. I’m looking forward to using more tools”. – Tavishi Jain
“I loved the teachers and
everyone there, I enjoyed the day also and the best thing was after school we
were talking to Miss.lamba , Mrs sandhir and Dr.Advani about our day in detail.
We loved it , We laughed ,felt sad because we were leaving primary school....”
– Sukhmani Khungar
“We learnt about input output
devices, wrote Limericks, learnt the basics of Geography- felt suddenly grown
up” – Neha Gupta
