Helping Your Child Excel at School and Beyond
Every child is unique. Every secondary school is unique. The trick is to make sure you find the school that best fits your child’s talents, needs and personality.
A great place to start is to examine each school’s climate and culture and the most pressing questions parents have about these important areas.
What can you do when your child wants to attend a secondary school you simply can’t afford or one that you feel strongly opposed to?
The MySchool website (www.myschool.edu.au) was introduced in 2010 providing a snapshot of how each Australian school, primary and secondary, was performing in the national Naplan assessment, thus providing parents the ability to compare the academic outcomes of schools in this particular test.
Parents looking for a school for their child would do well to look at MySchool as a part of their consideration in their final choice.
But there is much more to choosing the right school for a child! [Read more…]