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Jo McCulloch
eKindy Head of Department
Across the year, we collect evidence of the child's learning and development. Our planning supports us to do this, and as we get to transition statement time, it's more a matter of making that on balance decision about the child's progress and ensuring that we represent that clearly through the transition statement, so that the children have a smooth transition to Prep.
So each term a data walls created, to just show (through the symbols that we use for emerging, exploring and extending), where the child is at, and each term that is built on to show progress so that by Term 4 we've got a really clear picture of the trajectory of learning and development for each child.
The data wall’s really important for conversations, just with other colleagues around ‘this is where the child is at, from my judgment at the moment’ and having those conversations about how the next steps might be taken and what they might look like for that child. That informs, then the transition statement process too. So we really know the children, by the time we're getting to writing those transition statements and the pathway that they've taken throughout the year.
Each week in eKindy we have two half hours intentional teacher collaboration time built into our timetable. But we also buddy, read each other's transition statements so that we've got that, almost a moderation around transition statement writing, and ensuring that what we're giving families and the Prep schools is going to be really useful and a good summary of what the child is able to do.
In writing transition statements. We're coming from a very strengths-based perspective and looking at our collated evidence and notes from the whole year, the data wall, the progress taken to represent that child's learning and development for the year.
- Last updated:
- 31 October 2025
