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Plan an Effective Transition for Your Students

Plan a move from primary to secondary that keeps pupils making progress, from the first visits in Year 5 to settling into Year 7.

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Almost four in ten children fail to make expected progress in the year after they change school. Year 7 repeats work they did in Year 6, they're retested weeks after SATs, and parents start to wonder why their child seems to be going backwards.

There are five places, or "bridges", where transition can be strengthened, from passing on records to helping pupils talk about their own learning. You get a model timeline that starts in Year 5. There are also ideas to take to your feeder schools: a transition champion in each department, bridging units started after SATs and finished in September, pupil passports, Year 8 peer mentors and a staggered start to the year.

Transition days in July get a hard look too. Testing pupils backfires, and so does a theme-park tour of the best bits, so you'll plan a day that sits between the two.

Modules

8 modules
  1. 1Introduction5 min
  2. 2Why does transition matter?4 min
  3. 3The 5 transition “bridges”4 min
  4. 4The features of an effective transition I6 min
  5. 5The features of an effective transition II11 min
  6. 6What does effective transition look like for pupils?6 min
  7. 7Making best use of transition days2 min
  8. 8Wrap Up1 min

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