Lifestyle magazine series for all the family, featuring items on Northern Ireland's new Children's Hospice and starting school.

Presenter Helen Mark gives an overview of what is coming up on on this edition of the weekly family and lifestyle magazine show. Helen is on location at the building site of the new Northern Ireland Children's Hospice. Footage of a Viking regetta on Lough Erne to raise funds for the building. John Lenihan (better known as May McFetridge) talks about his own fundraising for the centre. Marcus Cooper, senior fundraiser, talks about the £1.5m running costs there will be after the centre is opened. Mary McGuigan talks about the song she wrote and recorded to raise funds for the project.

Jacqui Berkley reports on young children starting school for the first time. Sarah Meekin, clinical psychologist, talks in studio about what the young children will be experiencing. Interviews with children starting secondary school. Gillian Ievers reports on the rise of term-time holidays. Tom McKee of the NASUWT talks about the problems this causes for school.

Travel agent George Bunting talks about the trends for holidays around the calendar and the difficulty in getting children out of school. Seamus O'Neill, a principal, and Jeanie Johnson, UTV education correspondent, talk in studio on the subject. Helen Mark talks in studio with Jane Boyce about wine and the trends in buying with the point being made that women are increasingly making the choices for this product when shopping.

The Family Show (previously named Family Life) was a weekly magazine style series presenting reports and in-studio features on family matters, from young children, education, mothers, fathers and issues for the elderly, as well as items on cooking, shopping and leisure.