How to prepare daughter for huge changes at school in September when you don't know yourself

Last day today for her, she didn't go in. Staff said there was emergency repairs on the road therefore couldn't get a car out to her. In the end she decided to phone the school asking for a check in then got the bus to the town her school is in to say goodbye to a teacher who was leaving.

I have been emailed about changes happening during the holidays ready for September. They are doing a new layout of the school and new timetable layouts and new staff including current staff changing teaching roles to teach something else. I can't explain the changes much because you need to know what before was like to know what the new will be. 

I don't really know what's happening myself and she keeps asking questions which I can't answer so she's getting upset and anxious. She will also be getting the bus to and from school which is a new change aswell. 

I have said to her that she can look at the school throughout the holidays, once or twice a week so she can see the gradual change from outside the school and also to practice getting the bus again, getting into a routine. 

How can I help her exactly because I have no clue what is going on except that this change is absolutely massive and I'm not even joking or exaggerating. It's going to be a tough summer holidays the way we are going. 

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  • Thank you for the links, very helpful. 

    Do you know when you will know - maybe use that as the thing she can have as a certainty.

    Over the summer the school is having a new layout and changes ready for the first day back in September. That is all we know. We have a list of new and current staff and what they will be teaching. Also the new layout of the school but that is it. She has so many questions I just can't answer and the school will not respond to calls, messages, emails until the first day back. That is why I said she can get the bus and see what is happening.