The school holidays are always an exciting time of year, but plunging straight back into school after Easter can feel like a big change, just like the move from primary to secondary school at the start of term, too.
Not only does it mean hours of homework, making plans for the summer with friends and experiencing the height of ‘big school’, but it’s a new independence for 11-year-olds.
Rather than holding your hand on the walk to school or waiting at the curb side until you’re there to guide them across the roads, these budding teens have a greater sense of freedom outside.
Whether that means walking to school with a group of friends,morning or trekking back from a long day at school, it’s a time when most parents let their children out into the big bad world.
