Transition bookmark

A bookmark that can sit in any book throughout the year to help ease the transition worries from one year group to the next.
The bright and colourful nature of the bookmark allows for even further easing of all those transition feelings.

The bookmark helps children work through thoughts and feelings by including the following areas:

• teachers name and description/picture
• best memories of the current year
• comparison between what next year will look like (from the teacher) and preconceived ideas of the year already held by the child
• worries around next year and strategies known to help alleviate those anxieties
• aspirations, ambitions and a reminder of known friends and adults that will be there in the upcoming year.

This is an excellent resource for all children but especially for children who are SEN. It combines SALT notions with opportunities to embed self-regulation to help equip children t manage the transition into their new year group. This is even more important now as children have had a broken year of school due to the pandemic.