Materials required for this exercise:
• Flipchart paper
• A range of coloured marker pens
• Arrange flipchart sheets around the room with the following headings:
– Early years to primary
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Primary to secondary
Within sector from stage to stage (eg P1–P2 or infants to juniors) .
• For each topic have two flipchart sheets, one headed ‘Successes’ and one headed ‘Challenges’.
• Participants/groups are given a different coloured pen to record on these sheets.
• Under ‘Successes’ participants are asked focus on the way you currently communicate and involve parents in transition arrangements.
• Under ‘Challenges’ participants are asked to record any challenges to communicating and involving parents in transition arrangements.
• Each participant/group retains their given colour as they move from key transition to key transition.
• Participants/groups move to the next sheet and using their given colour add to the comments recorded by the previous group.
• This activity is repeated until the participants/groups have completed all of the key transitions.
• Completed exercises are displayed for everyone to see and comments are invited from the entire group.