Moving schools is a traumatic event but one group of pupils who have already made the transition from primary to secondary are having to go through it all again as their high school merges with another.
Year nines at Tulketh Community Sports College and nearby Fulwood High School and Arts College are going through a team-building and integration programme organised ahead of the merger of the two schools in September.
Over the next two years, 96 Tulketh pupils will be absorbed into what is at a present a 960-strong community at Fulwood.
The move is deemed just as daunting if not more so, that the transition from a class of 30 at primary school to a "big" school.
In order to make life easy to begin with, each tiny year group will gradually be absorbed into Fulwood but to kick start the merger the 35-strong year nine has been getting to know their soon-to-be 190 classmates at Black Bull Lane.
The Tulketh pupils have been going into Fulwood twice a week to take part in specific activities and have just spent their first two full days getting to know their new home.
They have even been provided with a Fulwood uniform so they can blend in and feel part of the school.
Tulketh will officially close its doors at the end of term and re-open as the Tag Lane annex of Fulwood.
There will be no year seven this year, the handful of children originally destined for Tulketh, around 30, will simply be absorbed into the Fulwood Community while the year eight, nines and 11s will remain at Tag Lane.
The year 10s though, will start their GCSE years at the Black Bull Lane site of the existing Fulwood High.
The two current head teachers, Bill Hill from Tulketh and Fulwood's Kath Moss, have working together over the last few months to phase the transfer of pupils as well as staff.
For more on this feature, see Friday's Lancashire Evening Post
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