To browse Academia. This research examines the experiences of first and second year students from the Solomon Islands as they transition from daily primary schooling to boarding secondary schools, located far from their homes. It investigates both the challenges these students face during their transition and the strategies employed to overcome them, including formal and informal support mechanisms provided by the schools.
The study aims to inform the development of effective transition programs in boarding secondary schools by drawing on the students' lived experiences and relevant transition literature. Bulletin of the Center Papyrological Studies, Essex Research Reports in Linguistics Asian Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google.
Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Student voices: Experiences of Solomon Islands students in transition from primary school to boarding secondary school Rosina Merry. Authors control the copyright of their thesis. In particular it explores the positive and negative feelings of students who have left their parents to live in boarding schools. For their first five months these students had no opportunity to contact their parents.
The study also explores the strategies they used to overcome their difficulties and problems. It also explores the strategies that boarding schools used to help their students. While much research to date has been carried out in developed and developing countries, no such study as this has been carried out in the Solomon Islands or in the Melanesian region. Research data were gathered using the qualitative method. Interviews were conducted with 16 students 9 first year students and 7 second year students , 3 principals and 1 deputy principal from four boarding secondary schools.
Data gathered were analysed using the thematic approach. The collecting of data was conducted in the Solomon Islands in April and May The positive feelings were feeling happy and all right. The negative feelings were feeling homesick, lonely, shy and afraid. The strategies that students used to overcome these problems were creating friendship with other students and attending social activities. The students also came across difficulties and problems like change of status from being senior students at primary schools to being the most junior students at secondary schools, tight school programmes, unfamiliar cultures and languages, and shortage of pocket money to help them to buy some of their needs that schools cannot provide.
