Members of the Student Peer Organization (SPO) at North Jr.-Sr. High School visited with sixth-grade students at James A. Dever to address any concerns and answer questions they might have about moving into the high school next year.
SPO is a group of juniors and seniors who foster positive relationships between older and younger students within the schools and assist incoming seventh graders through their first year in a high school setting.
Members are trained in problem solving techniques, decision-making activities and skills for group leadership. Each year, SPO representatives visit the sixth-grade classes in Valley Stream UFSD Thirteen to facilitate a lesson on emotional intelligence. The focus of the lesson is to help students identify potentially stressful situations, the behaviors and feelings that may result, and to then develop healthy strategies for handling those emotions.
The students present the lesson at this time of the year as a beginning of the transition to the seventh grade at North. Since juniors in SPO will be meeting with the sixth-grade students when they enter seventh grade, the lessons learned and the relationships established help to pave the way for a smooth transition into seventh grade.
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