Starting Special School Storybooks and Comics: HEAD SAYS, "excellent family-friendly approach to reassuring parents and children"

An A5 or A4 illustrated (with drawings based on your school) Storybook or Comic that introduces children and young people to starting at your special school.

Storybooks are for primary provision, and Comics are for secondary provision.

Drawings of your school

We would illustrate your special school... highlighting the story of two-three fictional children who start and how they become friends and experience the first few days at your school. We reflect their key concerns and worries in each story.

These Storybooks and Comics help allay fears and explain what happens at school.

Transition

To aid with transition, the Storybooks and Comics would be given to families who are due to start at your school - usually five-six weeks beforehand - and be read by parents to the child or young person 3-4 times a week.

This repetitious reading helps to familiarise the child or young person with your school, helping to dispel anxiety and make them excited.

Can be printed, or supplied as a web ready pdf or digital flipbook (see Storybook flipbook example here).

The below is only a small selection of Special School Transition Storybooks and Comics. 

New Size: we have recently developed a new, smaller 'budget friendly' Storybook at four pages, see a 'mock up' here .... and our first proper 4 page here for Holy Trinity Primary School. And second 4 page here for Jubilee Wood Primary School.

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