As well as passing through different stages, young children’s development may be affected by transitions and significant events. Transition is when there is a change from one stage to another. Transitions can be gradual or sudden, and can have short or long lasting effects to a child and on their development. Children will naturally go through many stages of transition such as growing up, changing from nursery to primary education, puberty, or changes in their home life such as moving house, entering or leaving care, changes to their family structure. How each child is affected is very individual to each person, the stage of development they have already reached and a whole mix of external and environmental factors. If the teaching staff are
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• Educational and intellectual transitions – moving from nursery to primary school or primary to secondary school.
• Personal, health and physiological changes – puberty or a long term medical condition.
Personal, Psycho-social and emotional changes – These usually come from a child’s personal experiences in life. Losing a parent, grandparent, close family member or friend or even a pet or favourite toy can have an effect on the child. Children’s emotions are affected by the relationships they make. Where they have an unpleasant or traumatic experience, or even just a disruption in their normal lives, it has an effect on their emotional development. Children that suffer from difficult relationships with adults, such as in the case of abuse, may find it difficult to form any kind of trusting relationship with other adults. A child may feel that a divorce may be their fault and tart blaming themselves for the break up. The same emotional disruption is also possible with something as simple as moving house to another area as the child will need to sever old friendships they may have had since their earliest …show more content…
Children thrive on routine and a change in what they consider their ‘normal day’ can have an effect on their development. Even something as moving on to another activity at school before the child has finished the first one can cause a child to act out or display challenging behaviour. The more often this type of transition is repeated, the more they get used to it and that then becomes the norm. Thus is especially important as they grown up as later in their schooling they will be expected to transition between one activity or class and the next without issues.
It is always of help to a school if they are aware of any big physical transition about to occur in a child’s life, such as a new school, new parent or sibling or a bereavement, as it will allow the school to help support the pupil through the changes that are about to
• Educational and intellectual transitions – moving from nursery to primary school or primary to secondary school.
• Personal, health and physiological changes – puberty or a long term medical condition.
Personal, Psycho-social and emotional changes – These usually come from a child’s personal experiences in life. Losing a parent, grandparent, close family member or friend or even a pet or favourite toy can have an effect on the child. Children’s emotions are affected by the relationships they make. Where they have an unpleasant or traumatic experience, or even just a disruption in their normal lives, it has an effect on their emotional development. Children that suffer from difficult relationships with adults, such as in the case of abuse, may find it difficult to form any kind of trusting relationship with other adults. A child may feel that a divorce may be their fault and tart blaming themselves for the break up. The same emotional disruption is also possible with something as simple as moving house to another area as the child will need to sever old friendships they may have had since their earliest …show more content…
Children thrive on routine and a change in what they consider their ‘normal day’ can have an effect on their development. Even something as moving on to another activity at school before the child has finished the first one can cause a child to act out or display challenging behaviour. The more often this type of transition is repeated, the more they get used to it and that then becomes the norm. Thus is especially important as they grown up as later in their schooling they will be expected to transition between one activity or class and the next without issues.
It is always of help to a school if they are aware of any big physical transition about to occur in a child’s life, such as a new school, new parent or sibling or a bereavement, as it will allow the school to help support the pupil through the changes that are about to