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Help pupils solve a realistic school mystery while developing practical secondary school skills!

When an unclaimed backpack is discovered near the playground, Mrs Potts the school secretary needs help identifying its owner. Six pupils were seen playing football nearby, and each has a different profile, timetable, journey to school, lunch preferences and after-school activities.

Can your pupils examine the evidence, eliminate suspects and solve the mystery?

This engaging transition investigation encourages pupils to read and interpret authentic secondary school documents while practising deduction, inference and real-world problem-solving skills.

What’s Included:

✓ Mystery introduction and challenge booklet

✓ Student suspect profiles

✓ Secondary school timetable evidence

✓ Homework planner evidence

✓ Lunch menu and lunch money clues

✓ Travel-to-school clues

✓ Club and enrichment clues

✓ Investigation worksheets

✓ Completion Certificate showing key skills developed

✓ Extension discussion questions

✓ Teacher notes and full answer key

✓ Blank timetable template

✓ Blank homework planner template

Skills Covered:

• Reading and interpreting timetables

• Understanding tutor groups and school routines

• Homework organisation

• Journey planning and travel awareness

• Logical reasoning and deduction

• Inference and evidence gathering

• Problem solving and discussion skills

Perfect For:

• Year 6 transition activities

• Moving-up days

• End-of-Year 6 activities

• Year 7 induction

• Tutor time

• Small-group work

• Home education

• Practical life skills lessons

No preparation required – simply print and go.

For maximum engagement, teachers can place the evidence documents inside a real backpack and allow pupils to investigate the clues as detectives working in teams.

Suitable for Year 6 and Year 7 pupils.

Get this resource as part of a bundle and save up to 48%

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Year 6 to Year 7 Complete Secondary School Transition Bundle

Prepare pupils for a successful move to Year 7 with this comprehensive Secondary School Transition Bundle, combining confidence-building activities, practical life skills, problem-solving challenges and real-world maths applications. Together, these resources help pupils explore their feelings about transition while developing the organisational, independence and reasoning skills needed for everyday secondary school life. **Included Resources** ✔ [Secondary School Transition Workbook](/teaching-resource/resource-13470613) Hopes and worries activities Reflection tasks Goal setting Confidence-building exercises Preparing for change ✔ [Secondary School Survival Skills Workbook](/teaching-resource/resource-13493273) Realistic timetable activities Homework planning and organisation Journey planning and time management Practical problem-solving scenarios Secondary school readiness checklist ✔ [The Mystery Backpack Investigation](/teaching-resource/resource-13496940) Detective-style transition challenge Timetable interpretation activities Homework planner clues Journey planning and travel clues Logical reasoning and process-of-elimination skills Optional hands-on investigation using simple props ✔ [Year 7 Themed Maths Word Problems](/teaching-resource/resource-13494237) Real-life secondary school scenarios Journey times and timetables Lunch money and budgeting activities Practical maths problem solving Independent reasoning challenges **Ideal For** * Year 6 transition lessons * Moving Up Days * End-of-SATs activities * PSHE * Tutor Time * Summer term transition work * Transition Week * Year 7 induction activities **Skills Covered** * Reading and using timetables * Managing homework and deadlines * Organisation and independence * Time management * Journey planning * Problem solving and reasoning * Confidence building * Real-world maths application * Preparing emotionally for change Together, these resources provide both the emotional preparation and practical life skills pupils need to feel confident, organised and ready for secondary school.

£5.99

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