'Settling In - Slow Down to Catch Up’ (2021)

A Resource for Guidance Counsellors: starting out in a new school in academic year 2020-2021.

This resource gives Guidance Counsellors and School management some guidelines / ideas for how a new Guidance Counsellor can ‘transition’ and ‘settle in’ to a new school.

This checklist includes some key points / areas of consideration on the following four elements:

1. Local School Policy
2. Local Structures / Teams
3. Local Supports
4. Student Needs and prioritising groups at the beginning of a new school year.

This resource is not intended to be prescriptive.
It aims to provide a starting point for discussions and points of action, in line with recent publications, including - NCGE: A Whole School Guidance Framework (NCGE, 2017)