Last updated:
20th March 2024
Transition
Transition dates:
Transition visit day 2024: Wednesday 26th June 2024. NB Some secondary schools will need to use additional days in this week for visits as, for good reasons, they have developed an approach that requires more than one transition visit day.
The week of the 24th - 28th June 2024 could be used for other transition events and be seen as a 'transition week.'
Transition visit day 2025: Wednesday 25th June 2025 (with additional visits taking place during that week)
Wokingham Common Transfer Form 2023
Writing sample
It has been agreed by schools across the borough that it is useful for a sample of writing for Year 6 pupils to be shared with their secondary school.
A possible task for this purpose is a letter from Year 6 children to a teacher at their new school, providing information about themselves. This supports both pastoral and academic transition.
Below are materials shared by Sarah Preston at Emmbrook Junior School, which schools may wish to use to support work on the writing sample. These materials are for a letter from Year 5 children to their Year 6 teacher, but exactly the same approach can be applied for Year 6-7 transition. The materials include a letter from the Year 6 teacher to the Year 5s, which the Year 5 children use as a model for their letter. Heads of Year 7 could write a similar letter to incoming Year 6s. Year 6 teachers would find it helpful to have the letter from the Head of Year 7 for use in the second half of the summer term.
Other transition documents:
- Texts used in year 5 and 6 in Wokingham schools
- Wokingham Transition Network
- Wokingham Conceptual Understanding project
Transition leads network meetings Oct 22:
Transition network meeting Summer 2022:
Transition network meeting Autumn 2021
Transition network meeting Summer 2021
Transition network meeting Autumn 2020
Transition Summer 2020
Transition network meetings Autumn 2019
Transition network next steps - Summer 2019
Transition meeting February 2019
Transition meeting October 2018
- KS2-3 Transition meeting - discussion notes and actions
- Transition meeting Oct 2018
- Literacy and numeracy catch-up strategies
Transition meetings summer 2017 - summer 2018
- KS2-3 Transition meeting 13th June 2018
- Transition meeting literacy, disadvantage and transition
- Transition meeting - The Wasted Years - key points
- Year 6 - 7 transition for disadvantaged pupils
Transition unit of work
Thank you to The Holt School and Year 6 teachers in partner primary schools for this Year 6 unit of work on Reading. The materials consist of PowerPoint presentations and lesson resources.
- Lessons 1 and 2
- Lessons 3 and 4
- Lesson 5
- Lesson 6
- Lesson 1 - Language Devices Activity
- Lesson 1 - Language Devices - Answers
- Lesson 1 - Language Devices paragraph
- Lesson 2 - Language Devices paragraph
- Lesson 3/4 - Parents Sayings Poem by Michael Rosen
- Lessons 3/4 - Model Paragraphs
- Lessons 3/4 PEEL Burger
- Lessons 3/4 PEEL Paragraph
- Lessons 3/4 Rosen's Poem
- Lesson 5 Extract - Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- Lesson 6 - Roald Dahl Teacher Quotes
- Poetry forms - match up activity
- Poetry Forms - match up answers
Other transition materials