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Although
it may seem more convenient to relocate during school holidays,
experience shows that this timing can be more upsetting for
children. School is a major source for making friends. So if you
move during the annual school holidays, your children will be
placed in new surroundings at a time when the opportunity to make
new friends is at a minimum. Come the first day of school in the
new year, they will enter the class as a stranger - a new student
who may not be recognised as such by a teacher facing a new class
for the year. On the other hand, a move during the school year
would allow your children to go directly from one group of friends
to form another. Transferring
from one primary school to another is relatively easy, as the
curricula is fairly flexible, whilst a transfer from one secondary
school to another is more likely to cause some transitional issues
as the curricula is more structured and is more likely to vary
from state to state. Therefore,
please consider the social issues that are likely to result from a
move during the annual school holidays. Always try to plan your responses to any issues that you can
anticipate, so that the kids view the outcome of moving as a
positive one.
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