Having negotiated our way through the onset of the virus, a shortage of loo roll and home-schooling, we now have to think about getting kids back to school after being at home for more than 2 months.
This bring with it all sorts of challenges, including:
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- Children’s anxieties
- Children’s excitement (both?!)
- Our own anxieties as a parent or carer
- Not feeling ready enough for lockdown to end
- Questions about what it will be like for the kids
- Will they cope with the ‘new normal’ – whatever that is…
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And on it goes; lots of unknowns, lots of questions and, most of all, lots of difficult feelings to deal with both in ourselves and the children we care for.
Help is at hand…
Dr Tricia Skuse, consultant clinical psychologist at TRM Academy, has prepared some guidance to help with this process.
The guidance covers:
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- What does anxiety look like?
- Dealing with our own worries
- Helping children prepare for school
- Handling the return to school itself
- Supporting children as they adjust
- What does anxiety look like?
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Above all, this guidance is VERY PRACTICAL and, very importantly, it’s FREE to download – here
Other stuff on post-COVID education
Here are a couple of other documents aimed at dealing with the transition back into education after lockdown:
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- Guidance on helping kids back to school – from the British Psychological Society, Scotland
- Stay Safe. Stay Learning – Welsh Government’s Continuity of Learning Policy Statement
- COVID-19 Resilience Plan for the Post-16 Sector – Welsh Government plan
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What do you think?…
Please let me know your thoughts… Leave a comment below or click here.
Related previous posts:
– Harry The Hound Returns to School – book review blog post. This little book was written JUST to help 6011 year olds with post-lockdown school anxiety!
– Harry the Hound Goes to Secondary School – Learn more here (affiliate link)
– Empathy 1 – What It Isn’t… (get the audio version of this post as part of the ‘Total Blog’ package on ‘Jonny 24/7’ – here)
– Empathy 2 – What exactly is it?… (get the audio version on ‘Jonny 24/7’ – here)
– Empathy 3 – A child’s-eye view… (get the audio version on ‘Jonny 24/7’ – here)
– Empathy 4 – Being non-judgmental… (get the audio version on ‘Jonny 24/7’ – here)
– Empathy 5 – Understand another’s feelings… (get the audio version on ‘Jonny 24/7’ – here)
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