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.
The transition to secondary school is a significant milestone for every adolescent and a successful transition is incredibly important. Children who can fairly quickly find their feet and stand tall in the first few months at secondary school are happier and generally more successful academically. And, equally as important, they are so much easier to live with!
Extensive international research clearly shows that even primary children benefit greatly from talking about careers. Right from the first year at secondary school you can certainly help your child become more career savvy. It’s never too early to go along to Open Days and have fun investigating the many wonderful courses and careers these lead to. Career knowledge empowering and motivating for young people.
School should always be enjoyable for children. When the fun goes, often so do the good grades. And students who can maintain great results despite disliking school for any reason, often eventually pay a high price. This can even develop into a growing resentment and eventual disengagement with school and learning. But does fast tracking a child at primary school always increase stress and cancel out the fun?