Nursery to reception transition document
Transition booklet for children - editable (Add school pics, class pics etc)
PDF - editable on canva (free for teachers) or adobe.
This Secondary School Transition Booklet has been designed to complement and tackle the change of dynamic faced by pupils between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. This fifteen page booklet includes a range of activities designed to help students move from Year 6 to Year 7 by encouraging them to take personal responsibility for getting themselves ready for their next steps in school. These activities include:
My new school
All about me
Subject and Teachers
Classroom scavenger hunt
My worries and concerns
My hopes and dreams
My ideal school day
Things that help me in class
Certificate of completion
And much more!
This booklet is also a helpful tool for teachers and support staff to help them gather information about the student so they know what strategies / interventions may need to be put into place.
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New English Virtual Escape Room – Perfect for Back to School or End of Term!
Challenge your students with this exciting English-themed virtual escape room from Cre8tive Resources! Designed for KS3 and KS4 learners, this one-hour activity is packed with fun, puzzles, and teamwork—making it a fantastic educational treat to kick off the term or round off the year.
Whether you’re teaching in-person or remotely, this escape room is ideal for engaging students in a fun, high-energy lesson full of critical thinking and problem solving.
What’s Included:
Interactive PowerPoint Tracker – Keeps the competition lively by showing team progress
Six Puzzle Key Sets – One for each team to ensure smooth facilitation
Team Record Sheets – For tracking clues, answers, and final codes
7 Puzzle Rooms – Each room presents a different challenge involving literacy, numeracy, and lateral thinking
Teacher Answer Sheet – Easily check student solutions and keep the game flowing
Setup Guide – Full instructions, setup tips, printing suggestions, and classroom shortcuts
Certificates of Completion – Award students who successfully escape! Includes an extra bonus puzzle for early finishers
Each puzzle room is tailored to English and literacy skills, promoting teamwork, logic, and subject knowledge. It’s an excellent way to review concepts, build classroom morale, and energise your lessons.
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You may want to check out some of our other great ENGLISH resources:
ENGLISH CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2020
ENGLISH ESCAPE ROOM
Shakespeare 24 Task Cards
A Christmas Carol 24 Task Cards
English End of Term Bundle
Careers in English Quiz Lesson
GCSE English Language Escape Room
Why is reading Important Assembly
PDF booklet of 10 activities:
Cover page and introduction
Self Portrait
School Memories
Letter to My Future Self
Handprint
Footprint
Height Strip
Maths Time Capsule Challenge
Finish the Picture
Story Time Capsule
Open Me in 2027 Reflection
A quick transition day activity for children to celebrate their achievements, reflect on the year they have had and create lasting memories to look back on in the future. Through a series of fun tasks, including letters to their future selves, drawings, challenges and personal reflections, children will create a time capsule that captures who they are today. The capsule can then be reopened in a year’s time, allowing children to see how much they have grown, changed and achieved.
Put all the activites in an envelope for the child to open at the end of the next academic year.
AQA GCSE Geography lesson for the new specification unit 2B. In this lesson we look at the Demographic Transition Model.
There is a multiple choice retrieval practice starter before we look at what the term ‘demographic transition’ means. The students have some sentence fragments to put in order. We then look at some key terminology that is needed for the lesson and the students match the description up to the term. We then look at the model itself an the students have a large A3 sheet to draw the model onto the template. The model is explained in stages and students make notes as they go along, drawing the three lines on too. There is a living graph activity to do when they have finished, by reading the statements in the boxes, they then have to work out which stage it applies to. We then look at examples of countries in the various stages of transition and the students create a diagram titled ‘The Road to Development’. We then tackle a 6-mark GCSE-style question. There is a writing frame for structure and guidance on points to use.
hope this saves you valuable planning time.
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/markthegeographer
7 ‘all about me’ pages in the shape of a balloon perfect for getting to know your class/transition activity.
Keep them as they are or attach to coloured paper using the template.
They can be folded and glued to create a 3D balloon. Looks great with photo of the child hanging on and can be added to a display board or hung from a washing line.
Early years transition bundle
Transitioning from nursery / pre-school to reception at school
To share with families
Home visit sign up sheet
Transition Letter template
Information evening presentation template
Transition Journey
To send home in a transition pack
All about me sheets
Editable name writing
Meet the team
Ready confetti
School readiness tick list
Transition booklet template (editable)
For internal use
Nursery visit information
Home visit questions
Transition steps checklist
Transition activities
EYFS Baseline assessment
Example week 1 and week 2 timetable
Year 6 History Transition Lesson designed to be delivered to Year 6 students who are doing a taster day or lesson.
This History lesson goes over;
What does History mean to you?
What Historical topics have you learnt so far and what topics would you like to learn about?
What will you be studying in Year 7 History at (chosen school)?
Why is History important - looking at historical quotes
Definition quiz of key terms (eg chronology, primary source, secondary source, century etc)
Activity with worksheet - looking at 5 inventions and having to…
Work out the order in which they were invented
Calculating centuries
Understanding significance and explaining which invention was the most significant and why
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Transition Booklet for KS1/ KS2 - end of year, new class, social story.
Pages 1 - 6 Booklet Cover page (Year 1 - 6)
Page 7 About Me page (name, age, space for a photo, likes/dislikes)
Page 8 Introduction to transition
Page 9 New teacher’s name and space for a photo/ drawing
Page 10 A note from new teacher (to be completed by the teacher)
Pages 11 - 13 Introducing the staff (space for photos and notes to be completed by the Year Group staff)
Page 14 For photos/ drawings of a new classroom
Page 15 New Classroom scavenger hunt activity
Pages 16 - 18 For photos/ drawings of the areas in the new year group (playground, toilets, lunch trolley, etc.)
Page 19 Things that will stay the same in the new year group (to be completed with the pupil)
Page 20 Things that will be different in the new year group (to be completed with the pupil)
Page 21 Blank page
Page 22 Closing page
Page 23 Credits page
For most pupils, transition to a new Year group is an exciting time. For some, however, it can be worrying and unsettling. This booklet is created to be used in KS1 and KS2. Teachers and teaching assistants work on completing the booklet together with their pupils, once completed - the book can be used as a Transition Social Story.
The document is in .pdf format and not editable. 23 pages included.
Transition documents to support nursery to reception - eyfs.
Presentation template - editable.
Presentation to be filled out - the presentation template includes slide headings and ideas for the slide.
5 Full Lesson Bundle + FREE practical lesson covering Transition Elements from OCR A Level Chemistry. Please review the learning objectives below
Lesson 1: Transition Metals & Their Compounds
To know the electron configuration of atoms and ions of the d-block elements of Period 4 (Sc–Zn), given the atomic number and charge
To understand the elements Ti–Cu as transition elements
To illustrate, using at least two transition elements, of:
(i) the existence of more than one oxidation state for each element in its compounds
(ii) the formation of coloured ions
(iii) the catalytic behaviour of the elements and their compounds and their importance in the manufacture of chemicals by industry
Lesson 2: Transition Metals & Complex Ions
To explain and use the term ligand in terms of dative covalent bonding to a metal ion or metal, including bidentate ligands
To use the terms complex ion and coordination number
To construct examples of complexes with:
(i) six-fold coordination with an octahedral shape
(ii) four-fold coordination with either a planar or tetrahedral shape
Lesson 3: Stereoisomerism in Complex Ions
To understand the types of stereoisomerism shown by metal complexes, including those associated with bidentate and multidentate ligands including:
(i) cis–trans isomerism e.g. Pt(NH3)2Cl2
(ii) optical isomerism e.g. [Ni(NH2CH2CH2NH2)3] 2+
To understand the use of cis-platin as an anti-cancer drug and its action by binding to DNA preventing cell division
Lesson 4: Precipitation and Ligand Substitution Reactions
To recall the colour changes and observations of reactions of Cu2+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Mn2+ and Cr3+ with aqueous sodium hydroxide and ammonia (small amounts and in excess)
To construct ionic equations for the precipitation reactions that take place
To construct ionic equation of the ligand substitution reactions that take place in Cu2+ ions and Cr3+ ions
To explain the biochemical importance of iron in haemoglobin, including ligand substitution involving O2 and CO
Lesson 5: Transition Elements & Redox Reactions
To interpret the redox reactions and accompanying colour changes for:
(i) interconversions between Fe2+ and Fe3+
(ii) interconversions between Cr3+ and Cr2O72−
(iii) reduction of Cu2+ to Cu+
(iv) disproportionation of Cu+ to Cu2+ and Cu
To interpret and predict redox reactions and accompanying colour changes of unfamiliar reactions including ligand substitution, precipitation and redox reactions
Lesson 6: Practical on Precipitation and Ligand Substitution Reactions
To make observations of the reactions of Cu2+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Mn2+ and Cr3+ in aqueous sodium hydroxide and ammonia
To construct ionic equations for the redox reactions that take place
For 23 printable flashcards on this chapter please click here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12637622
For lessons on redox titrations involving transition metals please click here :
Part 1:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ocr-redox-titrations-part-1-12244792
Part 2:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ocr-redox-titrations-part-2-12244807
Declaimer: Please refrain from purchasing this popular resource for an interview lesson or a formal observation. This is because planning your own lessons including using your own lesson PowerPoints is a fundamental skill of a qualified/unqualified teacher that will be reviewed during these scenarios outlined above
Make the transition to secondary History unforgettable!
This interactive History investigation challenges pupils to answer one fascinating question:
Which was the worst job in history?
Included in this resource:
Full transition day lesson
Detailed teacher guidance and lesson structure
Six engaging historical job investigations
Perfect if you teach GCSE Chemistry Single Science, this fully differentiated and resourced lesson supports your students in learning about transition metals, corrosion and alloys. Covering the full GCSE Chemistry specification, this resource is adapted to cover all exam boards. Students will:
Recall the structure and bonding of metals.
Describe the general physical and chemical properties of transition metals.
Explain what is meant by corrosion and rusting.
Describe the methods of rust prevention, and explain what is meant by sacrificial protection.
Explain how electroplating works.
Describe what alloys are, describe the uses of alloys and explain why alloys are stronger than pure metals.
This lesson includes a detailed and engaging lesson PowerPoint with differentiated activities, exam style questions and progress quizzes for students to complete. Enjoy and feel free to leave a review.
INCLUDED IN BUNDLE:
21 slide PowerPoint Presentation with key points, progress check questions, checkpoints, practice exam questions and quizzes.
A Year 9 into Year 10 Transition Booklet to prepare Year 9 students for English Language Paper 1. There is lots of advice, skills practise, differentiated tasks, reading for pleasure, and a practice paper at the end.
This is a resource we use to prepare KS2 year 6 children for school transition. We work through the booklet with the children on a 1:1 basis but this can be a self driven document.
I produced this to use with year 6 pupils to give them a taster of languages at secondary school. There is a brief section of introductions, numbers and a dialogue in a cafe. The resources are in Spanish, French and Italian.