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.

Back to School Healthy Transitions Infographic Hamish & Milo
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