Transition day - do new teachers usually attend?

[littlejohnnydory]

Dd is coming to the end of Reception and today was supposed to be transition day, where she spent the day in Year 1. I was expecting she would meet the NQT who will be her class teacher next year (we only found out last week that it won't be the current year 1 teacher). The new teacher wasn't there today and the class just did work with a teaching assistant, nobody spoke to them about next year at all.

I wondered what is normal practice when a new teacher joins the school, whether I could reasonably expect dd to meet the new teacher before September? Dd is anxious about changing class, was still awake at 9.30pm last night due to feeling nervous and had to be cajoled to go this morning with promise of treats after school. I hoped she would be less anxious after transition day but it sounds as though her class didn't have a transition day at all (class teacher confirmed dd's version of events and didn't seem impressed either).

I'm a teacher and starting at a new school in September.
I've been released from my current school for the day, to go and spend the morning with my new class, which is mixed R/Yr1.
Just been writing name labels and choosing a story for the start and end of the session.

2 simple activities for them to do. New receptions have got a colouring task to do, just so I can take a look at their pencil grip/control.
Year 1's have a simple writing task to do.

In my experience, teachers will do their absolute utmost to attend transition days. Unfortunately, for many different reasons, it's not always possible.

Hi littlejohnnydorry:

this was several years ago but on of the KS2 teachers meant to attend PGL days with Y6 broke their leg just before the trip and the NQT (who was about to take up a post at another school) went in their stead. It did include the Birmingham school-wide moving up day - so somewhere in a primary in Birmingham those kids missed out on meeting their new teacher that day.

Sometimes circumstances are such it can't be helped.

Trust that in an ideal world I'm sure the school & the NQT would have wanted a new teacher to meet their new class.

I strongly suspect there must have been a very good reason why they couldn't come. I can understand the disappointment but after a few days into the new school year it will swiftly be forgotten I'm sure.

HTH