Preparing children for the next step in their learning journey is very important to us at Riddings Infant and Nursery School.
Here are some ways we support as a school:
New EYFS children to school:
- Market day – meet the teachers, discuss uniform, meet the governors, catering, attendance expectations.
- Teachers phone every new parent.
- Teachers in Reception visit children in current nurseries / home visits.
- Transitional objects used to support attachment - mice.
- Stay and play sessions
- 3 x transition days
- Parents meeting
- Welcome to the EYFS meeting in the Autumn term
- Phonics at Riddings parents meeting.
Year 2 / Year 3
- 3 x transition days
- Transition meetings Y2/3 teachers
- Transition meetings SENCO / DSLs
- Joint Wellbeing Mentor who works between the schools
- Y2 / 3 Q&A time with current Y3 children
- Y3 teachers visit the children in school
- Additional weekly transition for vulnerable children
- All Y2 Children access Summer 2 Forest School at Junior school site
- Enhanced transition package for identified children including those with SEND needs.
General transition in school
- 3 x transition days
- Teachers have the opportunity to move around school and read different classes stories so the children get use to different teachers.
- Whole school theme on internal transition ‘All about me’.
- Drop in sessions for parents to look at classrooms and meet the new teacher.
- Headteacher shows parents around school
- Expectations of year group shared regularly.
- 'Meet the teacher' meetings Autumn term
- Key information shared for all children.
- Curriculum books and expectations passed on to next year group.