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

Hopes and worries activities
Reflection tasks
Goal setting
Confidence-building exercises
Preparing for change

✔ Secondary School Survival Skills Workbook

Realistic timetable activities
Homework planning and organisation
Journey planning and time management
Practical problem-solving scenarios
Secondary school readiness checklist

✔ The Mystery Backpack Investigation

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

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.