When your child joins us in Reception in September, we endeavour to:

• Ensure a member of staff visits your child in nursery or at home
• Attend any review meetings or Team Around the Child meetings prior to your child starting in order to assess and plan for your child’s needs.
• Provide visits for your child to the Reception Unit so that they can familiarise themselves with their new education environment.
• Provide an information session for parents to discuss routines and important information
• Provide other materials such as photobooks, social stories etc to aid transition if required.

If your child is joining us in another year group or at another time of year, we will endeavour to:

• Show you and your child around the school
• Attend any review meetings or Team Around the Child meetings prior to your child starting in order to assess and plan for your child’s needs.
• Visits for your child to their new classroom
• Provide information for parents on routines etc
• Listen to and act upon important information from yourselves regarding your child’s needs
• Provide other materials such as photobooks, social stories etc to aid transition if required.

When your child is moving to the next year group, we will endeavour to:

• Ensure they meet their new teacher, see their new classroom etc before the end of the summer term so that they can start to familiarise themselves with their new environment
• Provide additional transition visits to their new classroom if needed.
• Discuss transition with you in the summer term review meeting
• Provide other materials such as photobooks, social stories etc to aid transition if required

If your child is moving to Secondary School we will endeavour to:

• Discuss this with you as early as possible, for most pupils with SEND this will be in Year 5
• Invite the new school to attend the review in the summer term of Year 6 (in the case of pupils with an EHCP this would be earlier)
• Liaise with the secondary school to provide additional visits if needed
• Use materials such as the ASD 5,6,7 book, photobooks or social stories to aid transition if required

If your child has access to our counselling/Play Therapy services we will offer the continuation of this support for their first few weeks at Secondary School in September to help them settle in.

When your child is joining us in Reception Class in September, we endeavour to:

• Ensure a member of staff visits your child’s nursery or home
• Attend any review meetings or Team Around the Child meetings prior to your child starting in order to assess and plan for your child’s needs
• Provide visits for your child to the Reception Unit so they can familiarise themselves with their new environment
• Provide an information session for parents to discuss routines and important information
• Provide other materials such as photobooks, social stories etc to aid transition if required

If your child is joining us in another year group or at another time of year, we will endeavour to:

• Show you and your child around the school
• Attend any review meetings or Team Around the Child meetings prior to your child starting in order to assess and plan for your child’s needs if possible
• Provide visit/s for your child to their new classroom
• Provide information for parents on routines etc
• Listen to and act upon important information from yourselves regarding your child’s needs
• Provide other materials such as photobooks, social stories etc to aid transition if required.