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Friendships are important to children as they start school, particularly for children living in an area of socio-economic disadvantage. Socio-economic disadvantage is commonly linked to poor developmental outcomes and may affect children's readiness to start school. As a result, children in low socio-economic areas are less likely to have a positive school transition. This poor start to school can have a negative impact on children's long term schooling experience and future outcomes. Using data collected in multiple ways from children in the first year of school in an area of socio-economic disadvantage, attention is drawn to children's emphasis on friendships and the valuable support they provided during the transition to school. This article highlights how the provision of adequate support helps children to build the high order social skills and competence necessary to establish and maintain friendships, prior to and during the transition to school. This experience enhances enjoyment and engagement in the school environment, improving children's long-term educational outcomes.
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... Children in Hong Kong (Wong, 2015) also held concerns about teachers' expectations and children in Dockett et al.'s Australian study (2011) acknowledged their own behavioural difficulties. Similar to mixed SES samples, peers were framed as a source of support, play, and learning (Jackson & Cartmel, 2013;Australia), but also of conflict and bullying (Wong, 2015). Although these studies are valuable, they are few, and their insight is constrained by structured measures and/or very small samples. ...
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January 2013
... Most of the time adopting a new environment is a challenging and stressful event (Correia & Marques-Pinto, 2016) because novel experiences caused increase in secretion of stress hormones such as cortisol (Gutteling, M. B., de Weerth, & Buitelaar, 2005). Therefore, for children starting to a new school and for teachers beginning of the school year are stressful events (Correia & Margues-Pinto 2016;Jackson & Cartme, 2010;Ritvanen et al., 2004). Studies revealed that young children and their parents signified starting to a new school as a stressful event because they were entering unknown environment, where they met new people such as teachers, administrators, school staff who were unknown to them at the time (Correia & Margues-Pinto 2016;Jackson & Cartme, 2010;Koçyiğit, & Çomaklı, 2021;MacDonald, 2013). ...
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