Pupils can add to school ‘passport’ for second level

Children can provide information about themselves to their new schools when they move to second-level education, as part of a new compulsory education passport.

All primary schools will be obliged from next year to provide an education passport for each child to the second-level school that they transfer to, which must include a sixth-class report card about their academic and personal progress.

But the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) has also developed a form for pupils themselves to share information about themselves with their new school, which includes the following statements to complete: