5th and 6th class Families: Supporting your Child`s move from Primary to Post Primary School

National Parents Council Primary are running free online interactive workshops on “Supporting your Child`s move from Primary to Post Primary School”.

We would like to offer the parents of children in 5th and 6th class an opportunity to take part in one of our virtual training programmes.

Every year, more than 50,000 children in Ireland move from Primary to Post Primary education. It is a time of many challenges for children and for parents. For children, changes can be emotional, physical, and academic. They go from being senior in their Primary school to junior in their Post Primary School.

They have to manage a broader range of subjects and subject options, more teachers, more homework, longer school days, new friends, bigger school and very often their parents’ anxiety. For parents their challenges can range from choosing the school that best suits their child’s needs, to issues such as subject options, bullying, new relationships, friendships, homework, finance, and their child’s anxiety

This session will look at:

  • Choosing a school for your child
  • Preparing your child for post primary school
  • Subject choice
  • School Policies
  • Home school communication
  • People you might meet in post primary school
  • Parent/Teacher meetings

The sessions are taking place online via Zoom at 10am Monday to Friday, and 8pm on Monday to Thursday next week

Just click on the link below to register.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NPCTransitionOnline2021

Each session will have limited numbers for discussion and questions, and places will be offered on a first come first serve basis.

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6th Class Transition Video from SCP

As you may be aware Schools Completion normally visit our 6th class group around this time every year. Unfortunately, as we all know, that’s not possible this year.
Instead they have split the workshop into 4 short videos (see link below)
They hope (if there’s time) to follow this with a questions and answers session
They have provided an email address where parents can email questions and they will try and host a session for them in July.

https://tullowareascp.com/school-transition/

Tullow Area School Completion Programme