Year 6-7 transition days

[TwigTheWonderKid]

My daughter has been offered at 1.5 hour face to face transition session in her new school, to meet her form tutor and the other chidlren who will be in her class. The school has planned for this meeting to be outside if the weather permits, or inthe school hall, if not.

Hers seems to be the only local secondary offering this, all the others are doing online sessions and her primary school isn't very happy about her returning to them after being in a different group. I'm trying to work our what is reasonable here and am just wondering what everyone else's schools are going?

Georgielovespie all the Year 6 class are in school. There are 22 of them and whilst they are in in 2 separate bubbles they are all on the school field (distanced) at break, lunch and other times when the weather is nice. In the last 2 days her school is arranging a leaver's service at the local church (theirs is a church school), a picnic on the field, a waterfight and a campfire on the Wednesday night. These are a scaled back versions of the traditional leavers' activities and she would be very sad to miss out on them.

Luckily she is going to the same secondary school as her big sister so there is some familiarity already.

Just seems very unfair that she is being forced to choose and I am additionally annoyed because the school has just sent home an email confirming that any children attending a service at the local church this Sunday or next Sunday will be allowed back into school on the Monday, which seems illogical as they will be sitting for a similar amount of time as the proposed school visit inside a smaller room with a larger number of unrelated people...

That is just bizarre @TwigTheWonderKid ?! Could you email school and ask about it? Referring to how can it be right for children to go to church but not to school? Seems odd to me

I agree frustrationcentral but I am so cross about the lack of logic in this I seem to be unable to draft an email which isn't snippy and agressive and as we are just about to leave the school after 12 years whilst I do think it is ridiculous and I am usually exceptionally argumentative, I really don't want to leave the school under a cloud (even though it's not a cloud of my making...)

no transition days here our secondary has asked year 7 to write letters to the years 6's and some year 7's have made a video to be shown to year 6's.