Understand the Potential Effects of Transitions on Children and Young People

Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors.

When looking at children and young people’s development it is important to recognise and respond to concerns to ensure that the child or young person receives the help and assistance needed.

2.1 Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors

Starting primary school is a predictable, intellectual transition, which can be emotionally upsetting for some children. They may experience anxiety and stress when they first attend the new setting or meet a new teacher. There are a lot of changes involved – it will often be their first experience of being separated from their parents for any length of time; their routine changes with the hours at school and the longer periods of concentration required; they need to make new friends, undertake new

Transitions may also involve other changes in the child's life which may be unforeseen or only happened to them E.G death illness. These changes may result in many different outcomes in the Childs education and behaviour. Below is a list of transitions that only happen to some children and young people:

Describe with examples the kinds of influences that affect children and young people’s development, including:

In later years the child becomes less dependant on their parents and moves closer to their peers. They develop a sense of right and wrong by may still adult intervention to settle arguments. They become aware of their gender and normally prefer the company of their own sex. Their behaviour differs with their emotions depending upon circumstance.

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

There are different things that can affect a child’s development in their background these are just a few of them: -

Discuss the transition faced by the children/young people in your setting. Explain how the children and their parents/ carers are affected by these changes and reflect on the most appropriate ways to respond with reference to workplace policies and procedures. Suggest relevant further sources of information and support for the children, young people and their parents/ carers.

It is difficult for researchers to isolate specific causes of child behaviour because each child’s environmental settings and values are different from one to another.

This physical transition can have an emotional impact on a child as they may be moving away from family and established friendships to an unknown place. They may be worried that they won’t ‘fit in’ and make new friends. They may grieve for their old

Children and young people often experience many things which have a direct impact on their development; things such as their family environment and structure, personality, hospital visits, childcare arrangements, and culture.

Children’s development can be grouped into four different aspects: physical, social and emotional, intellectual and language.

As children grow, their body begins to signal adulthood with changes, called puberty. Puberty makes a child start developing as an adult. As a result, it affects the physique and mind in a new way. Changes that range from getting taller (in both sexes), to acquiring new hormones that develop in the brain. Normally, these hormones make many of the children experience a new way they contemplate certain things, including sex. For that reason, many questions as “Why this is growing?”, “Why my voice is changing”, and “Why am I reflecting on stuff that I did not do before”. Causing, parents to be the only source credible to answer these queries. On the negative side, it has been harder for parents to hold a conversation with their progenies trying to teach and answer the questions, about sex and puberty. Nonetheless, holding a talk on this subject should not be complex. Therefore, a simple talk from a parent might be the right way to teach a child about puberty and sex.