St. Ninian's High School

The road show was a great success with nearly 600 students finding out useful information which will hopefully help them to make sensible decisions in the future. In addition they will know where to find help should a friend or family member require assistance. An interesting link has also been produced to a questionnaire called "How well do you know your kids?" The idea behind the questionnaire is to encourage parents to talk to their children on all sorts of topics. Conversation can often focus on things like 'have you done your homework', 'bring me your dirty laundry' etc. This questionnaire is aimed to be very enlightening and helpful when completed! Hopefully it will give families some interesting topics to discuss at home. The link is This questionnaire is on the Department of Education Drug and Alcohol Website http://daa.im/parents/ 

"I am the Island Representative for the Charity 'Care for the Family' and I was at the Roadshow on Monday.  I would like to say I was really impressed with the students and with the questions they asked. They were all very polite and interested.  
At the Roadshow I gave out some questionnaires from Care for the Family called 'How well do you know your kids?'   I invited the students to take home and complete the questionnaires with their parent(s) and was really pleased to see the way in which they engaged with the opportunity.  Some students came to ask me for the questionnaire that their friends had received from me because they wanted to do it too.
 
The questionnaire asks the parent to answer questions about their child, such as 'What embarrasses him/her most?' 'Of what recent accomplishment is your child most proud?'.
 
Scores are then added up at the end, with the child saying whether the parent is right or wrong on each question, and there is a scoring sheet.
 
This questionnaire is on the Department of Education Drug and Alcohol Website http://daa.im/parents/
 
The idea behind the questionnaire is to encourage the parent to talk to their child on all sorts of topics.  I know from my own experience from having teenage children the conversation can often focus on things like 'have you done your homework', 'bring me your dirty laundry!' I found the questionnaire very enlightening and helpful when I completed it!
 
I was just wondering if this is something you may be interested in adding to your school website on the links page? "
 
Kind Regards
 
Carolyn

Carolyn Shipstone
National Representative, Isle of Man
www.careforthefamily.org.uk