Moving On Up

Moving on up. 🌈

Moving On Up is a calm, practical workbook that helps children with SEND get ready for secondary school. It takes the move one step at a time: getting to know the new school, planning for worries, practising new routines, making friends, and telling new teachers what helps.

Secondary school brings a lot of change at once: a bigger building, a different teacher for every subject, a timetable, a canteen and new friendships. For children with special educational needs, planning ahead makes a real difference. This workbook turns that planning into small, doable pages a child can work through over the summer term and holidays, then keep using in their first weeks of Year 7.

WHAT’S INSIDE (53 pages)

🙂 Part 1: All About Me – What’s Changing, How I Feel About It, About Me, What I’m Good At

🏫 Part 2: My New School – School Fact File, Map of My School, My Timetable, People to Know, New Words, Questions to Ask, Visit Notes

💭 Part 3: Worries and What Helps – Common Worries, My Worry Scale, What If…?, Ways to Feel Calm, Helpful Thoughts

🎒 Part 4: Getting Ready – My Journey to School, Uniform and Kit, Packing My Bag, Lunchtime, Homework Set-Up, Summer Plan

🤝 Part 5: Friendships – Making New Friends, Keeping Old Friends, If Someone Is Unkind

🗝️ Part 6: My Support – How I Learn Best, My One-Page Profile, Transition Passport, Safe Place and Key Adult, cut-out Help Cards

📅 Part 7: My First Weeks – My First Day, Settling-In Check (after one, three and six weeks), Weekly Check-In, Things I’m Proud Of, Looking Back, and a certificate

🧰 Toolkit – Morning Routine, Timeline for Parents, Where to Get Help, and Sources

Plus a letter to the child and a page for parents and carers with the key dates from Year 5 to the autumn of Year 7.

WHY FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS LOVE IT

✔ Covers the practical details that cause the most worry: the journey, the timetable, the bag, lunch and homework
✔ A One-Page Profile and Transition Passport to send to the new school before September
✔ Helps name a key adult and a safe place before the first day
✔ Keeps going after the move, with settling-in checks through the first half-term
✔ Reassuring and honest, drawing on research into what makes transition go well
✔ A parents’ timeline with the dates that matter, including EHCP deadlines
✔ Fill it in on screen or print it out, and reprint pages as often as you like

PERFECT FOR

• Children aged 9–12 with SEND moving from primary to secondary school

• Year 6 pupils getting ready, and new Year 7s settling in

• Children with or without an EHCP or a diagnosis

• Parents and carers

• Year 6 teachers, primary and secondary SENCos, ELSAs and teaching assistants running transition groups

WHAT YOU GET

• 1 fillable PDF file, 53 pages, A4

• Instant digital download, so no physical item will be posted

PLEASE NOTE

This workbook is for information and support. It does not replace individual advice from your school, local authority or a qualified professional. The admissions and EHCP dates described apply in England; dates in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland differ. Written in UK English.

© 2026 The SEN Advocate. For personal and educational use only. Not for resale or redistribution.