Parents & Friends Association News
Next Meeting:
Our next P&F meeting is scheduled for
Wednesday 16th March, 6pm-7:15pm.
Learning Centre/Library
The 2016 Committee welcome and encourage all new and current parents to attend these monthly meetings. The knowledge of many ideas put forward will benefit our school in the future. The March meeting will focus on decisions about fundraising and social activities for 2016.
Parenting Ideas & Insights
Social skills for children
As parents we often focus on the development of children’s academic skills and quite easily neglect the development of important social skills, which contribute so much to children’s happiness and wellbeing. School brings different types of learning, including social interactions and how to make friends. Parents can lay the foundations at home by teaching their kids these 7 important social skills.
Read more in the below PDF.
Teen Time
Teenagers need their parents more than at any other stage, yet too often they are left to their own devices. It’s time to turn conventional wisdom on its’ head and start dedicating more rather than less time to raising teens. That way we’ll go a long way to giving them what they need, that is, parental guidance, management, nurturance and support to help them safely negotiate the twists and turns of the developmental journey from childhood into adulthood.
Read more in the below PDF.