Transitions: Early Years
Activity 2
Materials required for this exercise:
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Flipchart paper
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A range of coloured marker pens
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Arrange flipchart sheets around the room with the following headings:
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Early years to primary
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Within sector from stage to stage.
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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 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.
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