Requesting division changes

At Walnut School, divisions are randomly allocated at the beginning of each academic year. Allotment of divisions is fixed for the year. We understand that you may have concerns about your child being placed in a different division than what you had hoped for. However, we want to reassure you that this can be a positive experience for your child. By being in a different division, your child will have the opportunity to make new friends and retain old ones, while still meeting and interacting with students from the entire standard during recess and sports activities. Children get to know other children through shuffling and make more friends. 

Also, grade 6 onwards they have differential learning. So for all core subjects and sports they are split up into groups that are as per their abilities in the subject. So essentially these children have different groups – one for each of the subjects and one for the rest of the activities. Students make more friends and will retain older ones as well. As adults who have more experience of the way the world works and who know how good it is to develop good networking skills at an early age, let us encourage our students to look at this as an opportunity to further expand their circle of friends and intellectual stimulation! After a week or two of school, if you still have concerns regarding how your child is accepting a division shuffle, we are more than willing to counsel your child in school. Please let us know if you would like us to.