Useful tips for a new school year

Published: 09 Dec 2020 Tagged: back-to-schoolchildrenhigh schoolparentspre-schoolersprimary schoolersschoolsecondary schoolerstips

From Kindergarten to Year 12, children spend a large amount of time at school studying, making friends and doing many individual and collective activities. However, the end of every school year comes with anxiety, insecurity and other concerns from students. ‘Will I fit in at this new school?’, ‘My best friend is moving to another school next year, how am I going to cope with it?’, ‘Year 12 is finishing, what’s going to happen to my future?’, and many other thoughts. Parents and teachers have a crucial role during the last weeks of each school year and also during the first years of the new school year, stimulating confidence, comfort, engagement, satisfaction and good studying habits over all students. Three very important aspects, if appropriately addressed by parents and teachers at the beginning of new school year, could ensure a great performance of children at school and their inner happiness in face of possible social challenges:

• Stay in school and keep up any needed subject. Many students might feel embarrassed for staying more time at school studying, because they might be bullied by others. This extra effort will keep your good grades and reduce stress before exams or when you finish Year 12 thinking about HSC marks and ATAR ranking.
• Avoid wearing or using things which disrupt the environment. At the beginning. If you start in a new school, you transitioned from primary to secondary school, or you are in a new class with different people, sometimes draw unnecessary attention might stress much more than any schoolwork. Students are learning about themselves, what they like or dislike, what is their own identity, but there is time throughout the year to start testing different clothes and objects.
• Don’t try to become someone else. It might conflict with the previous tip, but do not forget: you just be careful to not draw too much attention at the very beginning, so you can avoid bully, or unwanted nicknames, or judging stares. When you meet your classmates, make friends and learns who’s who at school, this is the perfect moment to reveal who you are. You like yellow socks? Put them on! Notebooks with k-pop groups on the cover? Go for it! Don’t worry because you’re not ‘normal’ or you don’t like the same clothing, music or accents of other friends: you are amazing exactly the way you are, and you must be proud of that!

These three simple and very meaningful tips can ensure you the needed confidence for your next school year to be much better than your expectations, making great friends, communicating with everyone with less shyness and studying with no stress! Even for the ones finishing Year 12 and preparing for University next year, these tips can be very helpful!