Transition: When Students Walk Into Randolph School

I was always the girl who loved to pick out my outfit the night before school, perfectly coordinating, with a bow to match. Then, I found out that I would be wearing the same outfit to school for the rest of my grammer school and high school days. After attending the quaint public school down the road from my house for six years, I found out that I was moving to Our Lady of the Hamptons Regional Catholic School. This was new territory for me.

Intellectual transitions include changes such as starting primary school, moving classes, key stages or up to secondary school. Also leaving school and moving on to further education or employment. These can all be very stressful changes for some pupils, others however, may be more than ready for the next big step in their educational lives. Obviously, these transitions are all planned, and known about in advance so parents and teachers are able to discuss any issue, and provide support to nervous children. Our primary school has policies and procedures to make each stage less nerve - wracking for children. In our last half term of the school year each child will be told which class room they are going to be in, with

Katherine Johnson was born August 26, 1918 and lived to be 99 years old. She was loved by many people including her spouse James Johnson and her later spouse James Goble. Also by her three girls Constance, Katherine, and Joylette Goble, and loved even more by her proud parents, Joylette and Joshua Coleman. She was one of three african americans to integrate to West Virginia’s School is something many people wanted to do but never did. She was so smart that she started High School when she was 13 and enrolled in college when she was only 18! She graduated with the “highest honors” in 1937. After that she took a job in teaching at a black public school in Virginia.

Coming to Citrus Hill High school was a big transition for me within itself. I originally transferred from rancho verde to get away from the trouble and focus more on the things that were important to me, like my school work and baseball. I had heard from the people around that there was a good program there play baseball there. When I came I thought my year would be good new start, new school, new surroundings nothing could go wrong.. Shouldn’t have said that. When i got there my anger issues have gotten in the way and has held me back from achieving many of the goals i set for myself before the school year began. For example, starting off good in all my classes keeping my grades up and making the baseball team. I’ve had previous conversations

I use to go to Bethesda Elementary before I moved here. The reason I moved was because I would go to Thomas. H. Pyle Middle School while the kids at BE would go to Westland Middle School. If I continued going to BE in sixth grade when I moved to Pyle I would not know anyone. The reason I moved to Bradley Hills, and not any other school that was going to Pyle was because Bradley Hills had a renovation that allowed more kids to come.

The strangest time I ever came up on was my 6th grade year. I knew it would have been challenging because i just got out of elementary and moved to a bigger school with kids that’s older than me. As we pulled up to Carencro Middle I was saying to myself “man this is crazy i’m in middle school now”. When i stepped off the bus they told us to go in the gym and when i approach the gym door i felt nervous because they had 7th and 8th graders already in the gym, soon as i walked in the gym the first thing i heard was “ fresh-meat” my whole body just sunk in.

I moved to Crawford my 7th grade year. I attended Crawford Middle School that year. That year went by exceptionally well, but the next year the school closed for 7th and 8th graders, so I had to join Hotchkiss Middle School. I found the Hotchkiss kids very welcoming, and friendly. I instantly became friends with almost all of them. There was just something so welcoming about that school from the friendly teachers who all cared very deeply about each individual student. The happy and friendly attitude wasn’t just at the school, it seemed everyone everywhere was just so happy to be in a beautiful place. Hotchkiss has always been a home for me from that day on because of the welcoming attitudes.

Frantic thoughts raced through my mind as I opened the door of my mother’s beloved red Dodge Charger. I looked over at my mother in the driver’s seat, waving me on and wishing me luck, trying to cheer me up.

For the rising freshman class, the transition between middle school could be difficult.There are currently over two thousand students attending Pinecrest High School, making it a crowded and diverse campus. High school is the chance to prepare for the future, whether it be college, joining the workforce, or serving in our nation’s armed forces. More responsibilities are given with higher expectations from family members and teachers, as adolescents will soon enter adulthood. Stress escalates with graduation not being right around the corner. However, high school students can increase their likelihood of success by following general guidelines.

Ten years after all of the drama with TJ and the Wallace’s, Cassie gets transferred to an all white Jefferson Davis school. On the first day of school Cassie walks on the bus with all of the white kids, as she was walking to the back of the bus the white kids were staring at her in a weird way that makes her spit on a white kid before she even gets to sit down. She then gets thrown off the bus and has to walk in the mud with a black kid, Scotty Smith that had moved here two days ago. When Cassie figured out that a boy was moving into a house in front of their house she was blushing. As they were walking to the school it was very awkward because Cassie likes Scotty Smith, but she didn’t have the courage to tell him before they had to split apart to go to their different schools.

The transition from Grady High School had become a starting point of a new life. Slowly but surely, it found its way into adulthood. Where I embraced a new sense of responsibility and maturity. At this given time and day, I was responsible for following the rules and regulations. These set of rules was being enforced by the principal named Dr.Bockman. Students did not appreciate her position as being principal, yet her job was to support the Grady community. She had a very strict job and she took it very seriously. Nevertheless, I made my first entrance into the steps of being in high school. I walked into Grady High School with an overwhelming fear of anxiety and depression. I had no idea what the expectations was gonna be. So, I knew that

I’m not going to bore you with facts you probably won’t recollect and I’m not going to act as if I am supercilious to this issue, but I am one for a change. Everything is going to change eventually, the court outside of the Newhalen School needs to change. The court is getting superannuated and precarious, the basketball rim and backboard is getting rusty and worn down by the years of snow, wind, and rain. We need a safe environment for our future generation. This court right now is intact, but imagine it years from now. It would collapse. The rim looks like it’s about to break off every time I go to shoot around there, and people should fear of that happening. If the rim did fall it would induce serious damage to the victim of that happening. The court currently is disintegrating and the nails that are holding the boards together are

Before I came to Baker Middle School, I attended elementary school in Laytonsville. I had a group of friends that consisted of five people, Olivia Fink, Olivia Pallas, Mason LeBlanc, Kody Johnson, and Stefan Jacob. The Olivia’s both attend this school alongside me, but sadly the other three attends a different school. I became friends with those three because we all had common interests in multiple categories such as cartoons and humor. I still keep in touch with them, but I know we aren’t as close as we used to be. With the Olivia’s we all became best friends in the first week of Kindergarten and we still have been by each other’s side since. We became friends because we all sat next to each other on our little chairs, and talked about anything

Lining up and walking down the hallways is a procedure that we have also. In our classroom, we have sixteen pieces of tape lined up in front of the door, one for each student. I first started this procedure to be sure no student was left behind in the classroom. It helped with that while at the same time giving children their own space. Our line consists of a line leader, two door holders, other students, and then at the end is the caboose. Everston and Emmer (2013), talk about how line leaders are helpful and the children like the privilege of this job. They also talk about how noise can disturb other classrooms so it’s best to not allow any talking. This is very true in our school setting. There is a flex-learning area for K-6 grade that we walk through each day. The tape for the leader, door holders, and caboose are all different so the children know where to stand. Children are expected to be quiet and to keep their hands to themselves as we walk down the hallway. To help with this we say our hallway rhyme, “Peanut butter lips, marshmallow toes, hand down to our side, and follow our nose”.

I hate walking to school. The frigid cold made my ears feel like they were about to fall off, but at least I had a jacket and snow boots. Half the kids in my school couldn’t even afford that.