Dear P7 Parent/Guardian,
Please see below communication we have received re Registration for this year’s Transfer Test. Please remember Parents must register their child, this cannot be done by the Primary School.
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POST PRIMARY TRANSFER
REGISTRATION CLOSING DATE FRIDAY, 23rd SEPTEMBER 2022
The five local Grammar Schools – Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar School, Our Lady’s Grammar School, Sacred Heart Grammar School, St. Colman’s College, and St. Louis Grammar School, have confirmed that they will use Assessment of Primary Seven students as a method of Transfer from Primary to Post Primary Education. The local schools are among the thirty-four Grammar/Integrated Schools which make up the Northern Ireland Post Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) which have successfully operated GL Assessments in previous years
The closing date for Registration for the Transfer Assessment is Friday 23rd September 2022. Parents of P7 pupils who wish to register their sons or daughters should complete a Registration Form and return it to the Newry & Kilkeel Registration Centre c/o Abbey Christian Brothers’ Grammar School. Registration Forms and associated information is available from any of the schools listed above either in hard copy or from a school’s website. Pupils who attend a primary school, or live in Lower or Upper Mourne, are not required to sit the Entrance Assessment if they wish to attend St Louis Grammar School, Kilkeel
The Assessments which have been conducted in a very professional manner, have gained the confidence of parents. In the past large numbers of pupils have successfully completed the Assessments in English and Mathematics and have gained a Post Primary School place in local Grammar Schools.
It is proposed that PPTC Schools, including the five Newry and Kilkeel Grammar Schools, will continue to use GL Assessments as part of their Admissions Policies until such times as there is an agreed consensus on Post Primary Transfer.
The purpose of this communication is to remind parents that the closing date for registration for sitting the GL Assessment on Saturday 12th November 2022 is Friday 23rd September 2022