Activity 2 – Transitions: Secondary schools
Materials required for this exercise:
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Flipchart paper
A range of coloured marker pens
Arrange flipchart sheets around the room with the following headings:
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Primary to secondary
Within sector from year to year (eg S1–S2) or broad general education
to senior phase
Senior phase to positive sustainable destination.
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For each topic have two flipchart sheets, one headed ‘Successes’ and one headed
‘Challenges’.
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Participants/groups are given a different coloured pen to record on these sheets.
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Under ‘successes’ participants are asked focus on the way you currently communicate
and involve parents in transition arrangements.
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Under ‘challenges’ participants are asked to record any challenges to communicating
and involving parents in transition arrangements.
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Each participant/group retains their given colour of pen as they move from key transition
to key transition.
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Participants/groups move to the next sheet and using their given colour add to the
comments recorded by the previous group.
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This activity is repeated until the participants/groups have completed all of the key
transitions.
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Completed exercises are displayed for everyone to see and comments are invited from
the entire group.