How is your child settling in to ? After the anticipation of has passed, some children find they have problems around friendships, or .

As a parent your instinct is to want to sort it out – but is it always best to step in early or should you stand back for a while and allow issues to resolve themselves?

Jason Wing, headteacher at Neale-Wade Academy, Cambridgeshire, explains: "The most common issues for Year 7 children are getting lost in the school and not being with their friends from primary school.