New Nursery and Reception children.

We aim to make transition into school a positive experience for the children and parents. 

Some ways in which we support our EYFS children into school:

• Market day – meet the teachers, discuss uniform, meet the governors, catering staff, attendance expectations shared.
• Teachers phone every new parent.
• Teachers in Reception visit children in current nurseries and conduct some home visits.
• We use 'mice' transitional objects to support the children with positive relationships and develop secure attachments.
• Stay and play sessions offered
• Meet and greet by Pastoral staff and Headteacher
• Transition days 
• Welcome to the EYFS meeting in the Autumn term
• Phonics at Riddings parents meeting to support parents with reading. 

Reception to Year 1

We aim to make the transition from Reception to Year One as smooth as possible for our children.

Ways in which we support our Year 1 children:

• Ensure all children have met the Year One adults through visiting their classrooms and working with them for a short time e.g. reading a story at the end of the day.
• Open evening in classrooms before transition day allowing parents and children to meet the new staff and visit the classroom,
• On Transition day itself the children spend the whole day with their new teacher and teaching assistant getting them feeling comfortable with coming to Year One.
• Our classrooms have continous and enhanced provision to allow for a supportive transition from the EYFS.
• Classrooms are set up in very similar ways with different areas of learning including a reading corner, role play, small world area as well as a writing and maths area.
• Transition meetings between professionals in school to pass on information are completed before the children start.
• Welcome to Y1 meeting at the beginning of the Autumn term.
• Transitional mice encouraged into Year 1.
• Learning journals used in reading corners to promote curriculum knowledge from the previous year group.

From Year 2 to Year 3.

We aim to make the transition from Year 2 to Year 3 as smooth as possible for our children, this includes;

• 3 x transition days.
• Transition meetings between professionals in school to pass on information are completed before the children start.
• Transition meetings SENCO / DSLs.
• Y3 teachers visit the children in school and participate in some group / teaching activities and observations.
• Additional weekly transition for identified children.
• All Y2 Children access Summer 2 Forest School at Junior school site.
• Visits to Junior school for children and parents promoted.

General transition in school

• Teachers have the opportunity to move around school and read different classes. stories so the children get use to different teachers throughout the year.
• Whole school theme on internal transition ‘All different, all special’.
• Headteacher shows new parents around school.

Click on the image for a link to "Ready for School in Derbyshire"