For their Learning Away programme, the Walney partnership schools use the Critical Skills approach to tackle KS2 – 3 transition issues through the vehicle of action research; students and teachers are co-researchers, examining the quality of transition together. The schools developed a number of resources to enable young people to personalise their experiences at camp, and to subsequently use their experiences to help plan the camp for the following year’s Year 6 students. This slideshow shows the bead system in action - a co-constructed system to record children's skill development over the camp and leave them with something to remind them about what they had achieved. You can find more information, resources and tools about co-constructing residential experiences with children and young people on the Learning Away website: http://learningaway.org.uk/resources/