Top 12 tips for teachers as children return classrooms

Download our healthy transition top tips infographic to help primary-aged children as they return to school.

Research shows that transition from parents and caregivers to the classroom can activate a child’s stress response system in their bodies.¹

Children need adults at school to help them regulate big feelings like distress, worry and anxiety that come about when they are separated from their parents/carers initially. As the adults it is important to recognise how the child is experiencing the situation from their perspective and to respond sensitively and with validating empathy.

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1 Institute of Health Equity 2022

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