As a trauma-sensitive school, we understand the importance of safe and secure transitions. We can aim to achieve this by including families in important events and milestones such as their child’s first day at school.
During our first ever family-focussed induction day, our new Primary 1 pupils had the pleasure of the company of their parents and families throughout the whole of their first morning in school.
Their new class teacher, Mr. O’Donnell, personally escorted each child and parent into the classroom and the fun shared activities were designed to be worked on together – a real example of family learning.
From these pictures of happy, smiling faces, you can see how successful the morning was.
Evaluations from our parents highlighted the success of this approach:
it helped those dreaded tears to see them in the class and make it alot easier. thanks very much for that time with my son into class.
— alison gray (@alisong57546111) August 17, 2017
I can only echo that. It was a fantastic start which meant the only tears were after reading the beautiful poem.
Well done and thank you.
— Craig (@thecraig86) August 17, 2017
