Latest / Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families / #619 Transitioning to High School: A Conversation With Terese Hooper
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- 0:03Speaker 1: It's the Happy Families Podcast. It's the podcast for the
- 0:07Speaker 1: time poor parent who just wants answers.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Now.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Hello, this is doctor Justin Coulson. Welcome to the Happy
- 0:13Speaker 3: Families Podcast. I love Wednesdays because of the fascinating conversations
- 0:17Speaker 3: that we get to have with people all over the
- 0:19Speaker 3: place doing a whole lot of really important and amazing work.
- 0:23Speaker 3: When you went to school, do you remember healthy Harold,
- 0:26Speaker 3: Do you remember the giraffe used to show up in
- 0:27Speaker 3: the playground or in the school assembly hall and you
- 0:30Speaker 3: do these life education sessions about all different things, healthy living,
- 0:34Speaker 3: making good choices, all that kind of stuff. Well, today,
- 0:36Speaker 3: having a chat with Tereses Hooper, she's the director of
- 0:38Speaker 3: Education in New South Wales at Life Education. Teres is
- 0:42Speaker 3: a former teacher and a parent of three kids, all
- 0:45Speaker 3: of whom have gone through the high school transition. And
- 0:47Speaker 3: that's relevant for the conversation today because well, there's a
- 0:52Speaker 3: lot going on as kids transition to high school and
- 0:55Speaker 3: Life Ed has released a new study showing that kids
- 0:59Speaker 3: are genuinely anxious and stressed about the transition from primary
- 1:03Speaker 3: school to secondary school. Forty six percent of kids say
- 1:07Speaker 3: that they feel fear, uncertainly in sadness about the move.
- 1:09Speaker 3: Forty three percent of kids said they felt joy or contentment,
- 1:13Speaker 3: so there's a lot of kids that aren't feeling great
- 1:15Speaker 3: about it. This echoes research that I came across a
- 1:17Speaker 3: few years ago that shows that when it comes to
- 1:20Speaker 3: resilience and well being, there is a dip, a measurable
- 1:23Speaker 3: dip in both resilience and well being as kids make
- 1:25Speaker 3: this transition from primary school to high school. There's another
- 1:28Speaker 3: dip again around year ten. Not sure why. I've got
- 1:31Speaker 3: a couple of ideas about that, but today we're going
- 1:34Speaker 3: to talk about this specific study with teres. The study
- 1:37Speaker 3: is Australia's largest of its kind. It showed that girls
- 1:41Speaker 3: are more likely to feel fear or sadness compared to boys,
- 1:44Speaker 3: and overall students are pretty well underprepared for the transition
- 1:47Speaker 3: going from big fish in little ponds to little fish
- 1:51Speaker 3: in big ponds. The research has led to the development
- 1:54Speaker 3: of a new life education program called Guide to Thrive,
- 1:57Speaker 3: which is available online for teachers and for parents. Terese Hooper,
- 2:02Speaker 3: director of Educational Life at Australia, joins us now to
- 2:04Speaker 3: unpack it all. Thank you so much for being on
- 2:06Speaker 3: the happy Families podcast ties.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Thanks for having me justin. I'm happy to be here.
- 2:11Speaker 3: It was a long intro, but there's so much to
- 2:12Speaker 3: unpack here, so let's just dive straight in and get cracking.
- 2:16Speaker 3: The transition to high school trees. It is for a
- 2:19Speaker 3: lot of kids scary and nervous. Not all kids, but
- 2:23Speaker 3: for a large percentage of them. When you look at
- 2:26Speaker 3: the research that you've come across, consider your own life
- 2:28Speaker 3: experience and the work that you do with life education,
- 2:31Speaker 3: how important would you say this transition is to the
- 2:34Speaker 3: rest of the child's life.
- 2:37Speaker 2: It's really very important. I mean, half of these kids
- 2:40Speaker 2: are telling us that they're really concerned about this transition
- 2:43Speaker 2: into secondary school and a negative experience. Transitioning from that
- 2:47Speaker 2: little pond into that big pond can lead to poorer
- 2:51Speaker 2: academic outcomes, less friends, so less social connections, lower sense
- 2:57Speaker 2: of well being, and a higher likelihood of them disengaging
- 3:01Speaker 2: from school or dropping out earlier.
- 3:02Speaker 3: So when you say that, Teres, I'm interested to know,
- 3:07Speaker 3: are we talking about kids moving into high school even
- 3:11Speaker 3: in a school that is from like kindergarten right through
- 3:15Speaker 3: or reception right through. Are we seeing this across the
- 3:17Speaker 3: board here?
- 3:19Speaker 2: We are because I think you know, we've all sort
- 3:21Speaker 2: of tried this on our kids, telling them these scary stories.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Is like, you're not going to get away with that
- 3:25Speaker 2: in secondary school, or wait until you see the workload increasing.
- 3:29Speaker 2: I mean, we do tend to use this as a
- 3:32Speaker 2: you know it's all going to change moment, and you
- 3:35Speaker 2: know that, you know, we've got to think of the
- 3:36Speaker 2: ramifications of those kind of statements. Half the kids are
- 3:39Speaker 2: still excited about it, but half the kids that you know,
- 3:42Speaker 2: it heightens their sense of anxiety around the change.
- 3:45Speaker 3: And when you're feeling anxious, when you're feeling scared, when
- 3:47Speaker 3: you're feeling fearful, the playground is a sort of place
- 3:49Speaker 3: where other kids will notice that, they'll feed off that
- 3:52Speaker 3: and they'll give you more of what you expect, right,
- 3:54Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's the way the social contagion, the
- 3:57Speaker 3: way kids work.
- 3:59Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, like you know, confident kids that are using
- 4:03Speaker 2: the right kind of body language and just really exuding
- 4:06Speaker 2: that confidence, they're going to be better placed. But the
- 4:08Speaker 2: kids that are feeling nervous anyway, you know, they're right
- 4:11Speaker 2: for the picking and it does lead to more challenges,
- 4:13Speaker 2: even even things like you know, greater prevalence around bullying.
- 4:17Speaker 2: This is really important that we listen to what these
- 4:19Speaker 2: kids are telling us.
- 4:20Speaker 3: Right now, let's have a look at the flip side.
- 4:22Speaker 3: We know that nearly half of the kids in the
- 4:23Speaker 3: survey said that this is not a positive transition time
- 4:27Speaker 3: for them. It's a fearful time. What happens when we
- 4:29Speaker 3: get the transition right? Do we just literally flipped around
- 4:31Speaker 3: and say everything goes great.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Well, no, but the likelihood of them achieving academic achievements
- 4:38Speaker 2: or higher levels of academic achievements is more prevalent. They're
- 4:42Speaker 2: better engaged in the school system, they might be participating
- 4:45Speaker 2: in more extracurricular activities. They're going to have stronger friendship
- 4:49Speaker 2: connections so that if something does go wrong, they've got
- 4:51Speaker 2: other people to turn to. They're going to feel safe
- 4:54Speaker 2: in that environment and embedded in that school community, because
- 4:57Speaker 2: each school is its own little community.
- 5:00Speaker 3: Thinking this conversation is so important to have right now.
- 5:02Speaker 3: It's August. We've still got several months until our year
- 5:06Speaker 3: six is head into year seven, and right around the
- 5:08Speaker 3: country now everyone goes from grade six to grade seven,
- 5:10Speaker 3: from primary school to high school. I wonder what parents
- 5:14Speaker 3: can do to help their kids to be better prepared.
- 5:18Speaker 3: I presume that the survey data the kids are identifying
- 5:20Speaker 3: that this is a tricky time for them.
- 5:22Speaker 2: What are they saying, Well, I'm going to stop you there,
- 5:24Speaker 2: because that's part of the problem is we start talking
- 5:27Speaker 2: about this, we go, oh, it's August, it'll be happening soon.
- 5:31Speaker 2: We need to get way in front of this. We
- 5:33Speaker 2: need to be having this conversation, you know, maybe a
- 5:35Speaker 2: year earlier. And the kids are telling us that, they're saying,
- 5:38Speaker 2: we don't want all this information at the last minute,
- 5:41Speaker 2: and we don't want it to stop the minute we
- 5:43Speaker 2: arrive or a week after we've arrived at secondary school.
- 5:45Speaker 2: Either we want that support and all that structure to
- 5:48Speaker 2: look after us over a longer period of time. So
- 5:51Speaker 2: you know, again, this is a really great opportunity to
- 5:54Speaker 2: take it from the mouths of babes. They're telling us
- 5:56Speaker 2: what they need. It would be crazy not to listen.
- 5:58Speaker 3: Okay, So if you kids six right now, sorry, too bad,
- 6:01Speaker 3: so sad. But if they're in grade five right now,
- 6:04Speaker 3: I shouldn't say that. I'm just kidding.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Now.
- 6:05Speaker 3: There's something else in this data though, that I read
- 6:08Speaker 3: and highlighted in the intro therees that I really want
- 6:10Speaker 3: to pick up on again. Forty six percent of kids
- 6:13Speaker 3: said they feel fear, uncertainly in sadness about the move.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Girls were the ones that were most likely to experience
- 6:20Speaker 3: fear or sadness rather than boys. Now, I've got a
- 6:22Speaker 3: couple of ideas around what could be going on here,
- 6:25Speaker 3: but I'd love to know what you think before I
- 6:27Speaker 3: throw my two cents worth.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Well, I was hoping to hear your ideas because we
- 6:32Speaker 2: at Life Aired, we need to conduct more research to
- 6:34Speaker 2: understand this and to unpack it further. I know personally
- 6:38Speaker 2: my experience. I've got two daughters and I found that
- 6:42Speaker 2: this was around the age that they started to disengage
- 6:44Speaker 2: from sport. They had more friendship challenges. So justin, I'm
- 6:49Speaker 2: really keen to hear your thoughts on this matter.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Also, sure, well, you're exactly right. The data shows that
- 6:54Speaker 3: kids disengage from those extra curricular activities, especially the ones
- 6:57Speaker 3: that involve you moving their physical body. Girls don't play
- 7:00Speaker 3: sport once they get into high school grade seven, grade eight.
- 7:03Speaker 3: The drop off is precipitous, and a lot of this
- 7:06Speaker 3: has to do with body image, and a lot of
- 7:08Speaker 3: that has to do with what's happening in the playground.
- 7:10Speaker 3: It has to do with this heightened awhen is that
- 7:13Speaker 3: bodies are changing and that people are noticing the bodies
- 7:17Speaker 3: are changing. A lot of people say, oh, it's all
- 7:19Speaker 3: social media stuff, and that may be part of it,
- 7:22Speaker 3: but really it's the social environment. Is it a safe
- 7:25Speaker 3: environment or not? And my guess is that girls feel
- 7:28Speaker 3: less safe. And another thing that's a reality from research
- 7:32Speaker 3: is when we look at sociometric research, we know that
- 7:35Speaker 3: girls worry about popularity more than boys. Girls are much
- 7:40Speaker 3: more relational, they're more relationally aggressive. So I would be
- 7:44Speaker 3: leaning in that direction and suggesting that the oh and sorry,
- 7:47Speaker 3: there's also additional pressure on girls, Like we've got this
- 7:50Speaker 3: saying about boys that I hope one day will eradicate,
- 7:53Speaker 3: but we haven't done it yet, and that is that
- 7:55Speaker 3: when boys are having a hard time, when they're playing up,
- 7:56Speaker 3: when they're being bullfeneds, when they're punching each other or
- 7:58Speaker 3: kicking a ball over the fence on the roof, we
- 8:00Speaker 3: shrug our shoulders and say, oh, boys will be boys.
- 8:03Speaker 3: But when girls do that, we kind of say, excuse me, girls,
- 8:06Speaker 3: you can do better than that. We have a higher
- 8:08Speaker 3: behavioral expectation, a higher behavioral standard for girls. So I
- 8:11Speaker 3: think they're the four big things, thees that really stand
- 8:14Speaker 3: out to me immediately. First off, girls are more relational. Secondly,
- 8:20Speaker 3: they're more aware of their bodies and the changes that
- 8:24Speaker 3: are happening. And Thirdly, as an extension of that, they're
- 8:28Speaker 3: mindful that other people are noticing them and making judgments,
- 8:31Speaker 3: both boys and girls, so they're not feeling is safe,
- 8:34Speaker 3: and of course that lasting girls are expected to behave better.
- 8:37Speaker 3: That's kind of what I would imagine is possibly going
- 8:41Speaker 3: on there, but it could be something else as well.
- 8:43Speaker 3: I'd look forward to seeing some more research in just
- 8:45Speaker 3: a sac after the break Trees, I want to ask
- 8:47Speaker 3: you whether having siblings who have made the move into
- 8:50Speaker 3: high school will sort of have much of an impact
- 8:54Speaker 3: on that, and maybe just unpack a bit more about
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- 9:30Speaker 3: the podcast for the time poor parent who just wants answers. Now,
- 9:33Speaker 3: if you've got kids that are going to transition to
- 9:35Speaker 3: high school soon, this is the conversation that you want
- 9:37Speaker 3: to be having. Terse Hooper is in charge of education
- 9:41Speaker 3: at Life Education, the director of education in New South
- 9:44Speaker 3: Wales Life Education. We're talking about this transition to high
- 9:47Speaker 3: school and treies. When you look at that data, did
- 9:50Speaker 3: siblings older siblings specifically play a role about whether kids
- 9:54Speaker 3: were more or less concerned about getting into high school?
- 9:57Speaker 2: Yes, and no, I think at Life ED and I
- 10:01Speaker 2: think you know more broadly as well. We all understand
- 10:03Speaker 2: and respect that all kids are different, really unique and special,
- 10:07Speaker 2: and each each child's experience is going to be quite different. However,
- 10:13Speaker 2: the experience that their older sibling had might help shape
- 10:16Speaker 2: that experience or the sense of anxiety that they may
- 10:19Speaker 2: have going into that. So if that older sibling had
- 10:22Speaker 2: a really great, smooth transition, that younger kid might go
- 10:25Speaker 2: into that transition feeling like that's going to be exactly
- 10:28Speaker 2: the same for them. It may it may not. And
- 10:31Speaker 2: obviously the flip side as well, so they might be
- 10:34Speaker 2: some heightened anxiety if the older child ended up, you know,
- 10:38Speaker 2: not having such a smooth sort of experience going into
- 10:41Speaker 2: secondary school.
- 10:42Speaker 3: School is just so stressful for so many kids. What
- 10:45Speaker 3: were they highlighting is the thing that concerned them the most.
- 10:50Speaker 2: They had quite a list, and you know, this was
- 10:52Speaker 2: qualitative research. So we've got the words out of their mouths.
- 10:56Speaker 2: And one of the most sort of favorite satements or
- 11:00Speaker 2: questions that they said to us was am I going
- 11:03Speaker 2: to be so busy that I'm not going to have
- 11:05Speaker 2: time for fun anymore? Yes, So they were really concerned about,
- 11:11Speaker 2: you know, how their time was just going to be absorbed.
- 11:14Speaker 2: They were really scared about the level of school work
- 11:17Speaker 2: they were going to be expected to do and the
- 11:19Speaker 2: amount of homework. They also told us that they were
- 11:23Speaker 2: a bit worried about how they're going to get to
- 11:25Speaker 2: this new school. You know, they might be having to
- 11:27Speaker 2: navigate public transport for the first time ever. A lot
- 11:31Speaker 2: of them even said they'd never seen our school timetable before.
- 11:36Speaker 2: And some of them went and did a walk around
- 11:38Speaker 2: at a school orientation day and they felt like this
- 11:41Speaker 2: was such a new, big, scary environment. They even got
- 11:43Speaker 2: lost on the campus. So some of those real simple
- 11:46Speaker 2: things that we don't see that play out as you know,
- 11:49Speaker 2: so large in our lives, but kids see that as
- 11:52Speaker 2: enormous and don't forget that. A secondary school environment specifically,
- 11:58Speaker 2: it has a real hierarchy that's very very evident there,
- 12:02Speaker 2: and it's evident in terms of size as well. Those
- 12:04Speaker 2: kids look big to a newly sort of minted secondary
- 12:08Speaker 2: school student, and there's real scales of that and clicks
- 12:12Speaker 2: around there as well. So where do they belong?
- 12:14Speaker 3: I remember going into grade seven, I'm this scrawny little
- 12:16Speaker 3: eleven or twelve year old kid, and I'm looking at
- 12:18Speaker 3: the year twelves. They're growing beards. For goodness sakes, I
- 12:21Speaker 3: mean that was so big. Do you reckon COVID's had
- 12:24Speaker 3: much of an impact on the way kids are going
- 12:26Speaker 3: to transition to school next year?
- 12:28Speaker 2: Yeah? I do. And teachers are telling us all the
- 12:31Speaker 2: time that you know that kids are they haven't got
- 12:34Speaker 2: the social skills that they may have had or they
- 12:37Speaker 2: may have seen in place a few years ago. This
- 12:39Speaker 2: is a flexed muscle. This is a muscle that you
- 12:42Speaker 2: can learn and develop, you know, even entering a new
- 12:46Speaker 2: play environment, asking someone you know for some support. If
- 12:50Speaker 2: you don't practice those things, and we haven't because we've
- 12:52Speaker 2: had so many interruptions in the last couple of years,
- 12:55Speaker 2: they're less likely to be able to do that at
- 12:57Speaker 2: school as well.
- 12:58Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's get some answers here.
- 13:01Speaker 1: Teres, if parents can help kids to prepare for that
- 13:03Speaker 1: transition to secondary school, whether it's going to be this
- 13:05Speaker 1: year or next year, or whenever it might be, what
- 13:08Speaker 1: advice would you give to parents who are and teachers
- 13:11Speaker 1: who want to improve this transition experience as kids go
- 13:14Speaker 1: from being in this little school to being in this great,
- 13:17Speaker 1: big high school.
- 13:18Speaker 2: First of all, I say to parents and teachers, take
- 13:22Speaker 2: the time and listen. Kids are telling us this sort
- 13:24Speaker 2: of stuff. We could hear it if we'd actually just
- 13:26Speaker 2: stop and listen. This is what we did at Life Ed.
- 13:29Speaker 2: We asked the question and we listened. We heard from
- 13:33Speaker 2: nearly four hundred and fifty little people from the ages
- 13:37Speaker 2: of ten to fourteen, and they told us that these
- 13:39Speaker 2: are their concerns. If we know that, if we have
- 13:42Speaker 2: all that information on the table, we can support them
- 13:45Speaker 2: with strategies and develop the skills so that they can
- 13:47Speaker 2: navigate these issues. But one, oh, one is listen to
- 13:50Speaker 2: your little people. Yeah, for sure.
- 13:53Speaker 3: And based on what you were mentioning before, I'd imagine
- 13:56Speaker 3: we need to give them some reassurance. You will still
- 13:58Speaker 3: have time to have fun, You can still play your
- 13:59Speaker 3: favorite game, sports, hobbies, whatever. And the workload. Maybe we
- 14:04Speaker 3: can stop scaring them about how big the workload's going
- 14:06Speaker 3: to be. That also stood out to me. We don't
- 14:09Speaker 3: need to be stressing our year sevens about how hard
- 14:11Speaker 3: they have to work to get into university.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Is that reasonable?
- 14:14Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yes, Stop the scare campaign. Start talking about the
- 14:19Speaker 2: benefits of it. You know, I talk to my kids
- 14:21Speaker 2: and say, you know, there have been those years where
- 14:23Speaker 2: you didn't necessarily love that teacher that you had for
- 14:25Speaker 2: the whole year. Or guess what, when you go into
- 14:27Speaker 2: secondary school, you're going to get a different teacher every
- 14:30Speaker 2: lesson that you walk into, the likelihood of you loving
- 14:33Speaker 2: half of those teachers is probably pretty high and then
- 14:36Speaker 2: really getting you. So let's talk about the positives. There's
- 14:38Speaker 2: a lot of positivity in the change and the experience
- 14:41Speaker 2: that they're going to be having, and there's ways that
- 14:43Speaker 2: we can prepare them for that, even just at home.
- 14:46Speaker 2: So for instance, you know, with my youngest at the moment.
- 14:49Speaker 2: I actually suggest to her that if we go out
- 14:51Speaker 2: to coffee or lunch, how you can go up and
- 14:53Speaker 2: pay today, here's my card. I want you to do that,
- 14:56Speaker 2: and she'll normally say could you come with me? And
- 14:58Speaker 2: I go. Notice, is a really good opportunity for you
- 15:00Speaker 2: to practice your social skills, simple things like that, you know,
- 15:04Speaker 2: teaching them how to catch a bus, tap on and
- 15:07Speaker 2: tap off, navigate the state transit app that we all
- 15:11Speaker 2: have available to us. Little things like let's prepare them early.
- 15:15Speaker 2: That's going to take the sting out of some of
- 15:17Speaker 2: those changes that might frighten them leading into school transitions. Thanks.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Three is so life Education have put together, as I
- 15:24Speaker 3: mentioned before, a really useful resource for both teachers and parents,
- 15:29Speaker 3: a life education program called Guide to Thrive. Take this opportunity,
- 15:34Speaker 3: give it a plug. Let's find out how this might
- 15:36Speaker 3: be helpful for parents and for educators.
- 15:39Speaker 2: Okay, well, what the parents and the teachers and their
- 15:42Speaker 2: cares are going to see when they log on here
- 15:44Speaker 2: is it's going to be divided into three sections. The
- 15:47Speaker 2: first section is for teachers. It's some professional development so
- 15:50Speaker 2: that they can understand and unpack the research that we've
- 15:54Speaker 2: done so that they can really drill down into it
- 15:56Speaker 2: and understand what those kids are telling us. The second
- 15:59Speaker 2: part of it is the classroom activities, which are for
- 16:02Speaker 2: teachers to facilitate in class that are going to develop
- 16:06Speaker 2: those skills and provide strategies for kids to work through
- 16:10Speaker 2: to navigate some of the challenges that the kids highlighted
- 16:12Speaker 2: to us. The third part is for parents, so we
- 16:16Speaker 2: know that the holy grail of education is when you
- 16:18Speaker 2: can create that perfect, perfect triangle between home, school and
- 16:23Speaker 2: what the child's going to experience. So then we've got,
- 16:26Speaker 2: you know, the higher likelihood of them achieving those outcomes.
- 16:29Speaker 2: So again, just little tips so that we can have
- 16:32Speaker 2: those conversations at home and little suggestions that you can
- 16:36Speaker 2: start to prepare your young people way before they start
- 16:39Speaker 2: getting those scary stories about what's going to happen at
- 16:41Speaker 2: big school.
- 16:42Speaker 3: Will we see healthy Harold, No, we won't.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Healthy Harold doesn't play a part in this. There is
- 16:47Speaker 2: a bit of a time, you know, kind of that
- 16:49Speaker 2: drop off time where they stop believing in things like, oh,
- 16:53Speaker 2: I don't want to no spoilers here, but you know
- 16:56Speaker 2: certain mythical.
- 16:57Speaker 3: Creatures the kids too, for healthy Herald saying they're going
- 17:00Speaker 3: into high school, they don't need the giraffe anymore.
- 17:02Speaker 2: They don't need the giraffe anymore. It's time to put
- 17:05Speaker 2: him down. At that being said, often when we get
- 17:07Speaker 2: into high school, kids are still asking where he is.
- 17:10Speaker 2: So they've got that nice memory and at least they
- 17:12Speaker 2: know that all this research and these resources are coming
- 17:16Speaker 2: from a trusted provider that the kids, the parents, and
- 17:19Speaker 2: the teachers already know and trust.
- 17:22Speaker 3: Bit of nostalgia.
- 17:23Speaker 1: Love it.
- 17:24Speaker 3: Terse Hooper, the director of Education at Life Ed, thank
- 17:27Speaker 3: you so much for joining me on the Happy Families podcast.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
- 17:31Speaker 3: And for all the information about that Guide to Thrive
- 17:34Speaker 3: program for parents and teachers if your kids are moving
- 17:37Speaker 3: from primary school to high school. We will link to
- 17:39Speaker 3: it in the show notes so that you've got access
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