Information For Parents

At Eikon, we recognise that the transition from primary to secondary school can potentially be a really difficult time for many young people and parents. Five years ago, we began working with local primary schools to support children during this time. We now run a six-week project every summer term with up to 12 children from each of the 8 local primary schools*.

This project is entitled' Moving on Up" and each child is given their own handbook to work through as part of the group. Each session is about 40 minutes long and involves games, questions, puzzles, drawing and quizzes. They are designed to help each child think about the differences between primary and secondary school. They also talk about some of the key areas such as homework, making new friends and bullying that a lot of children worry about before they start a new secondary school. An outline of the six sessions is included below: 

Week 1: Getting to Know You How are you feeling about Secondary School? Worries	Week 4: Bullying Quiz: 'What would you do if ...?' How Eikon can help.
Week 2: Hopes and Worries What are you looking forward to at Secondary School?	Week 5: What will be different? What will be different at Secondary School? A chance to look at timetables, homework diary, maps etc
Week 3: Role Models Who is a good role model? To be a good role model I will...	Week 6: Review and next step Things I will miss most about Junior School. Things I am looking forward to most about Secondary School. How do you feel about going to Secondary School? Eikon at Fullbrook School

* New Haw Community Junior School, St Paul's C of E Primary School, Sayes Court Junior School, Christ Church C of E School, Pyrford C of E Aided Primary School, St Mary's C of E Primary School, Byfleet Primary School, West Byfleet Junior School. Ongoing support
Our support for students taking part in the Moving On Up project doesn't finish at the end of the six weeks. We are present at the Fullbrook Induction day to welcome children at the school gates and catch up with them at lunchtime.
During the autumn term, we will meet with each group to find out how they are getting on and will offer further support if necessary. We also run a weekly lunch club for all Year 7 students to help them make new friends.
During the spring term, we run a weekend residential where we take Year 7 students to an outdoor activity centre in Kent. This is another chance to make friends and take part in some confidence boosting activities.

How a child can take part in the 'Moving On Up' project
We would love every child coming up to Fullbrook to take part in the project. Practically, we are not able to offer us this. We are currently limited to 12 children from each primary school that we work with in two separate groups.
We work closely with the Year 6 teachers from each participating primary school to identify potential children to take part in this course. We ask them to select children that may find the transition more difficult than others. For example, they may be shy, nervous, have special educational needs, have been bullied etc. In schools where there are only a small number moving on to Fullbrook School, ALL children are invited to take part in the project, even if they may not find it particularly difficult.