New Transfer Form to ease transition from primary
A new standardised Student Transfer Form for pupils leaving primary school will pass on information on academic achievement, attendance, behaviour…
Primary schools will complete one form only per child and will send it, on request, to a school that has enrolled a pupil.
Principals at both primary and post primary levels have agreed a protocol to ensure that the transfer form will not be used by post-primary schools to cherry-pick students. The form will also have the affect of ensuring that parents do not keep open multiple options for second-level schools for their child.
The information gap between primary and second-level schools was highlighted some years ago in a major ESRI report, commissioned by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). Since then, the NCCA has been overseeing ways to improve the transition experience, including the systematic transfer of reliable information about pupils.
The Irish Primary Principals Network (IPPN) and the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD) - the representative bodies for principals at primary and post-primary levels - have been working on a joint approach to the issue.
They have made the Student Transfer Form available on their websites (www.ippn.ie and www.napd.ie) and are asking their members to co-operate with it, with a view to a more formal implementation of the new procedure in 2010.
The NCCA has been involved in discussions with the IPPN and NAPD, but it has not at this stage given formal backing to the draft Student Transfer form.
Meanwhile, the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) says it has not been consulted so far. (Source: Irish Independent)
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June 2nd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Who agreed this? Who asked for it in the first place? Who is adding to the current workload? Was the DES, CPSMA and the INTO involved? This must be agreed first.