Transition to year 7

[Lulu317]

Is it normal for secondary school staff to visit Year 6 students at their primary school before they start Year 7?

Yep, very

Yes for the secondary DDs attended.

Yes!

It depends if it's a super selective grammar with an intake form a wide geographical area that might be difficult. Local secondary, yes.

Do private schools also normally do this?

Yup, our secondary transition lead visited the primary twice, once back in October to talk to the whole year (and parents were invited) and then a few weeks ago to talk just to the kids who are going there (which is about a third of the year group of 90 kids, even though we are in London with loads of schools around!).

Some of the other local secondaries have done zoom calls to the primary kids going there, but our secondary is definitely the main destination (and we’re probably the biggest feeder primary) hence the visit

Yes. We have had two secondaries visit already this week. More to come next week.
our Y6s go to about 10 different secondaries and most visit.

As a head of year 7 I visit primaries. I quite enjoy it.

Ours practically live there in Years 5 and 6
Chess tournaments, writing days, maths challenge days and competitions etc. Then days in school from the April to end of term.

Extra days for SEND kids.

25/30 kids will go there though. Then maybe 1 or 2 will go private and then the rest to other schools in the area.

I'm sure this didn't happen in DD's primary which was an ordinary one-form intake primary.

However, it is on the edge of two local authorities and there are two local secondaries, one in each LA. Add to that some children going to other secondaries nearby, or private, or grammars. DD's class of 30 children went to 13 different secondary schools!

Here there is a visit if the school is in the same borough and more than 2 or 3 children are going to the same secondary.

29/30 of my child’s class are going to the same secondary school (mine is the one who isn’t!) and various teachers from the school have been in on multiple occasions for talks etc with the kids. My child has been pretty bored while they were taking place!