Tomorrow, my DD16 is starting sixth form. For two of her subjects, she's at her regular high school, but for one of them, she's going to a different school. One of her friends from her regular school was supposed to be going with her, but she's off due to testing positive for covid.
So now, she's really anxious about going to the school by herself for the first week.
She only has two days there alone, but she says she's worried because she doesn't know her way around the school having only been there twice during her taster sessions, and she's not very good at talking to people/making friends on her own. She hasn't been told which rooms she's supposed to go to, and she says she wouldn't know how to get to them anyway. I told her she could just ask for help from the receptionist or some kids at school when she gets there, but she says she'll probably be expected to be able to make her own way around because she went to the taster sessions. The school is a little bigger than her other one, which probably doesn't help much either.
Also, since neither me nor her dad are able to drive her there or back, she has to get two buses to get there, and two to get back, which she hasn't really done before. She's fine with getting the bus usually, but she's nervous about the bus getting there late or not turning up, since her sixth form's policy about missing lessons isn't clear about whether or not they'll be lenient when it comes to absences/lateness if kids have to get buses (the sixth form is fairly strict when it comes to absences/lateness).
Her anxiety's been so bad that she's been feeling physically ill and gotten insomnia.
I don't know what to do to help her. Whenever I try to reassure her, she just shuts me down and insists that it won't be alright. She says she knows she just has to get on with it, but I know this is taking a toll on her mentally (and physically now).
Any suggestions??