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.
French KS2/KS3 lesson on holidays, ideal for a Y5/Y6 taster or transition day or as something fun to do with Y7 at the end of the year.
EPI style activities with a Sentence Builder and modelling and LAM activities.
Uses the near future tense to talk about students’ holiday plans, includes cognates and high frequency vocab on the topic.
starter task to activate prior cultural knowledge and facilitate discussion
faulty echo
sentence chaos
identify which sentences are nonsense
sentence bingo
all English translations included on sentence builder
No printing of activities required unless preferred, I recommend printing the sentence builder and using mini whiteboards.
Editable version of PPT included.
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
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.
A fun and easy to use ‘Transition to secondary school’ lesson for Year 7. This first day back lesson is perfect for form tutors to use when they meet their new Year 7s.
Includes a one hour PowerPoint, differentiated activities about starting secondary school, activities for creating a display of ‘FactBook’ profiles, and introduction for new students on the importance of learning a wide range of distinct subjects.
These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed, editable and easy to follow.
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Help children feel confident and excited about meeting their new teacher with this engaging Get to Know Me worksheet. Designed for KS2 pupils (Years 3–6), this printable colouring-style activity encourages children to introduce themselves, share their interests, reflect on how they learn best, and tell their new teacher what makes them unique.
Perfect for transition day, the first week back, or meet the teacher activities, this low-prep resource helps build positive relationships from day one while giving teachers valuable insight into their new class.
What’s included:
1 A4 printable black and white worksheet
Fun colouring-style design
Writing and drawing prompts
Suitable for Years 3–6 (KS2)
Sections include:
My name and preferred name
A little bit about me
Draw a picture of yourself
My favourite things
I am good at…
I learn best when…
Something you might not know about me
I would love my teacher to know…
I would like help with…
I am looking forward to…
Perfect for:
Transition Day
Moving to a new class
Back to School
Meet the Teacher activities
PSHE lessons
Icebreaker activities
Classroom displays
Pupil voice
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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Spanish KS2/KS3 lesson about likes and dislikes
Ideal for a Y5/Y6 taster or transition day
Also works well with Y7 if they are going to be starting a new language in Y8
EPI style activities with a focus on accessible, high-frequency vocab (including lots of cognates) and confidence-building fun!
Editable PPT resource
Cultural true/false style starter
Lots of speaking games, careful listening tasks, and translation
Grammar element to explore to get students thinking deeply (plural endings, ie. me gusta/me gustan)
Includes: repeat if correct, sentence bingo, sentence chaos, what did/didn’t I say, choral repetition, mindreaders, battleships, scaffolded pair speaking tasks, survey task, unfair game (whole class translation)
Adaptable to any group - pick and choose from activities if you’re short on time, and use as much target language as you like
All instructions and answers included on slides
Supported with clear images throughout
15 slides total (editable)
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.
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
French KS2/KS3 lesson about likes and dislikes
Ideal for a Y5/Y6 taster or transition day
Also works well with Y7 if they are going to be starting a new language in Y8
EPI style activities with a focus on accessible, high-frequency vocab (including lots of cognates) and confidence-building fun!
Editable PPT resource
Cultural true/false style starter
Lots of speaking games, careful listening tasks, and translation
Grammar element to explore to get students thinking deeply (articles)
Includes: repeat if correct, sentence bingo, sentence chaos, what did/didn’t I say, choral repetition, mindreaders, battleships, scaffolded pair speaking tasks, survey task, unfair game (whole class translation)
Adaptable to any group - pick and choose from activities if you’re short on time, and use as much target language as you like
All instructions and answers included on slides
Supported with clear images throughout
15 slides total (editable)
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.