Transition Meeting for nursery moving on to reception with Mrs Merry 19th July 2013
I thought it would be a good idea to have a meeting with Mrs Merry to put the nursery to reception transition into motion for the children that were moving up in September. I thought it would be beneficial to Mrs Merry if I shared information with her about the children, such as their strengths, areas that I felt they may need extra help in, if one of the children needed continuing support, I thought it would be a good idea to put these measures in place ready for September. As the children in nursery were already in with the existing reception children both I and Mrs Merry knew that they wouldn’t need any transitional visits. Mrs Merry and I discussed how we thought that information should be passed between us from School Club to school, and we both decided that a School Club to school diary would be the easiest, as information could be recorded and nothing could be forgotten. I decided that it would be beneficial if I observed the children over the summer holidays as it would give Mrs Merry a more up to date idea of how the children were developing and which areas that they may need extra support in. In the meeting I thought it would be a good idea to put into place a procedure to deal with separation anxiety, the children would see me right through the summer at the holiday club, and it was a long time since they were last at school. Both I and Mrs Merry thought that the last week in the