{"id":3611,"date":"2020-04-01T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/?page_id=3611"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T16:17:25","slug":"transition-to-secondary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/transition-to-secondary\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition to Secondary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>St. Francis\u2019 Primary School and Nursery Class is a member of the Holyrood Learning Community which consists of nine primary schools, two nursery schools, one secondary school and one secondary school (Additional Support for Learning). See\u00a0Primary\u00a0for Primary Schools in the learning community.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.holyrood-sec.glasgow.sch.uk\/\"><b>Holyrood Secondary School<\/b><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Head Teacher :\u00a0Mr. L. Byrne<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">100 Dixon Road<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">Glasgow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\">G42 8AU<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"UW8fvh8po7\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/holyrood-sec.glasgow.sch.uk\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pupils are normally transferred to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Holyrood Secondary School (Telephone: 0141-582 0120)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Strong links have been forged between Holyrood Secondary School and ourselves. A great deal of thought and effort is put into the preparation of our pupils for transfer to secondary schooling and the liaison between primary and secondary teachers becomes more effective each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">We are grateful for the co-operation, which exists between the two schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The series of visits, where secondary staff come to see our children in St. Francis\u2019 and our pupils visit Holyrood to sample the opportunities of the secondary, are very successful in terms of allaying any worries, which may exist.In addition, a small number of pupils are invited to participate in the Bridging the Gap programme which offers additional support near the time of transition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Each year the Head Teacher of Holyrood Secondary addresses parents\u2019 meeting and parents have the opportunity to ask questions on any matter concerning their children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Freedom to choose a Secondary School \u00a0is the right of every parent.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Tips\u00a0for children going to high school<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parentingacrossscotland.org\/publications\/top-ten-tips\/starting-high-school\/\">Top Ten Tips for starting high school<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/tags\/zh4wy9q\/starting-secondary-school\/1\">Starting High School<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1JrLi1QRd0s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1JrLi1QRd0s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=holyrood+secondqry+you+tube&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en-gb&amp;client=safari\">Part 2 Holyrood Secondary<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iYXiAU_23ek\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/iYXiAU_23ek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Francis\u2019 Primary School and Nursery Class is a member of the Holyrood Learning Community which consists of nine primary schools, two nursery schools, one secondary school and one secondary school (Additional Support for Learning). See\u00a0Primary\u00a0for Primary Schools in the learning community. Holyrood Secondary School Head Teacher :\u00a0Mr. L. Byrne 100 Dixon Road Glasgow G42 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/transition-to-secondary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transition to Secondary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16128,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3611\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}