Transition Week Leaves Students Excited for the Next Year

By Jasmine Jok and Molly Cheung

Year 6 Transition Week is a week-long event at the end of each academic year, one that many of us might have experienced. Each year, the school offers a week of secondary school experience to the current Year 6 students, which assists them with assimilating to the more difficult, stressful, and what some say to be a “dreadful” six-year-long secondary school life.

This year, from May 29th to June 2nd, the upcoming Year 7s left the Primary section for a week. They stepped foot in the Secondary block, where they experienced a life MYP students go through on a daily basis, taking many flights of stairs a day and having a different break and lunchtime. Throughout the week, these Year 6 students adapted to the secondary schedule, experiencing new subjects such as Individuals and Societies, Science, and Design, as well as learning how to differentiate between the “1 hubs” and “0 hubs”, and familiarised themselves with the secondary teachers.

Some students have expressed their excitement for secondary school life. Eddie, a Year 6 student, has said he enjoyed “everything” from the transition week. Eddie and another student named Jasper have also stated that everything they have learnt so far in the week has been “fun” and “interesting”, and they are both thrilled to return to RCHK as secondary students in the next academic year.

A current Year 10 student, Audrey Yeung, has expressed that the curriculum and activities in class during her transition week in 2019 were “quite useless” as to what the secondary curriculum was really like. However, she still believes that familiarising herself with the different locations and hubs of the Secondary section had been “very helpful” in her secondary life so far.

On the last day of the week, the Year 6 students also had a different schedule, which included their first RCHK Mentors session, where they all hung out with their mentors, played games, and enjoyed themselves for the first hour of the school day. One of the mentors, Year 10 student Leanne Tse said that the students were “quiet but very nice and followed all the rules, and are really willing and eager to participate in the activities”, setting a good stepping stone for the increased levels of teamwork they will participate in secondary.

Overall, transition week was a great success, with many Year 6 students enjoying the activities and classes arranged for them throughout the week. We wish all upcoming Year 7 students the best secondary school life they hope for.