The Guidance Counsel Unit of the Education Department, in collaboration with the Primary Schools, held the Annual Transition Day event for students on Friday, May 23, at the Orealia Kelly School’s Auditorium. The students will be entering Campus B of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School in September coming.
Guidance Counsellor for the Primary Schools, Mrs Vivienne Fleming, spoke to The Anguillian about the importance of Transition Day.
She said the aim was to get the children together in order to know each other, and to build friendships to avoid negative attitudes towards each other when they meet in the Campus B classrooms. “I think it is working because when we go back to the schools to talk to the students, they share with us how they enjoyed the event; and they have made friends whom they will have in Campus B,” Mrs Fleming stated.
The students represented all six Government Primary Schools and the privately-run Central Christian School and the Omolulu Institute.
The all-day event included a motivational address by Ms Shellya Rogers of the Department of Youth and Culture. Other persons were co-opted to speak on such matters as self-esteem and self-confidence. It was also arranged for the students to form into several groups, and for them to speak among themselves about peer pressure and what it means to be a young man or a young woman, as well as to participate in other activities and to interact with each other.
