Advice please from Scottish Primary School teachers

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As stated in title.
When children move from, say, Primary 3 to Primary 4 - is the new teacher supposed to have up-to-date/relevant information about their new class pupils?

We always pass on notes on each child plus the levels they've attained in CfE and what reading level they're at.

We'd also have an informal chat about the pupils.

Yes. The teachers will be given time to discuss each pupil, levels they’re working at, additional needs, etc. Some schools have a clear format for this, but lots don’t. Information can be lost at transition point. This was certainly the case with DD, I had to tell her first 5 teachers about an additional need she had, not a single one had passed it on at transition. Also different teachers have different priorities and sometimes very limited time to do a handover, realistically you can’t tell your colleague every detail from a whole year about each child.

Yes, if the new teacher was there in June. There is planned handover time.

Yes.

In most schools there will be a set way to do handover. I’ve worked in one school where it was in the school calendar when teachers had to meet to do a handover and what information needed to be included in the folder. I’ve been in another where it is up to staff to meet (or not), but all the data was stored centrally, so you could look at that whenever you wanted to.