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Stacey Hodgson
Principal Project Officer Kindergarten, QCAA
At the point of transition teachers reflect on, describe and share information about learning, development and wellbeing for each child. To do this teachers’ review a collection of evidence alongside the continua of learning and development.
They review the evidence with the observable learning which describes the significant learning for each phase, the level of familiarity with the learning situation, and the level of support offered for children to demonstrate what they know, understand and can do.
These parts enable teachers to make ‘more like’ judgments which reflect where a child’s learning is, at the point of transition.
Lisa Kennedy
Teacher/Director Lowood Kindergarten
Our assessment profiles play a big role in how we do our transition statements at the end of the year, so all that hard work that we've put in all through the year, and we can see that journey of each child really helps us shape those transition statements. So when it comes time to open those transition statements up, we can look at, with our assessment profiles right next to each other.
When I look at each child's assessment profile I can really look at specifically what that child is achieving and then I can use the continua of learning alongside that to make sure that I know what phase they're in.
To make a more like judgment when writing a transition statement, I would look at their assessment profile and I'll look at where they're at on the continuum.
When making judgments for transitions we have lots of team meetings so that each member of the team can contribute to the transition statements and to the assessment profiles of each child.
Sometimes when we're having these deep discussions, we will have different opinions on what we see, but then we kind of take it as a really big positive because we don't always see the same thing and it's great to be able to see what other educators have the opportunity to see. But then when we were able to come together in and, and look at the documentation that we had gathered and we were able to look at the learning stories and a collaborative journal and our conversations with parents as well, we were able to together, put all that evidence together to come out with the same outcome.
Transition statements have been a bit of a journey here in this community out here but over the last couple of years, through our early years network meetings that we have with all the local schools, we've really talked about the role of transition statements and how they can help that transition process with prep teachers and with children. And so they really play a big role now, and prep teachers, actually thank us now for the effort that we've put into those transition statements and they're actually using them. So it tells us that that transition statement is really valuable for each child.
- Last updated:
- 18 December 2025
