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Transfer and Transition: Ensuring a smooth transition from KS2 to KS3
5th February 2008, London

Dear CPD Week Reader,

The transition from primary to secondary school can be a daunting and challenging time for children. However, the transition period is your chance to renew students' enthusiasm for learning and ensure that your pupils' secondary school careers get off to a flying start. Transition is the time to guarantee your school's success by supporting new learners effectively so that they can flourish throughout KS3 and KS4.

It is hard to know the best way to ease transition. What can you do to ensure that you are supporting your new students effectively? What is the best way to implement an effective transition policy in your school? Transfer and Transition: ensuring a smooth transition from KS2 to KS3 will answer these questions for you and many more.

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We are delighted to welcome Mo Laycock, Headteacher at Firth Park Secondary School. Mo will explain to you how to develop effective partnerships between primary and secondary schools, so that you can guarantee your students the smoothest transition period possible.

We are also very pleased to welcome streamed session speakers such as John Beresford, Associate Lecturer at the Open University. John will explain to you how can use the most
effective Learning and Teaching strategies to boost learning for new students in your school.

In another in depth workshop Dr John Blanchard will explain to you how to ensure the most effective transfer of data so that you can guarantee you have all the information you need to make transition work at your school.

Attend this one-day-national event to discover how to work your way through the maze of transition and develop the best transition strategies to help your students.

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Benefits of Attending

  • Learn from school leaders how to develop a successful collection of transition strategies

  • Develop learning and teaching strategies to ensure students stay on top of learning during transition

  • Develop an effective transition policy

  • Help pupils handle the emotional pressure of transition

  • Re-engage disengaged learners

  • Ensure curriculum continuity

  • Develop your students' emotional literacy

  • Allay parental fears about transfer

  • Effectively manage transfer and transition

  • Develop effective partnerships with primary schools

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Who should attend

  • Deputy heads
  • Heads of Year 7
  • LA Secondary Admissions Coordinators and Officers
  • KS2 to KS3 Co-ordinators
  • Transition & learning co–ordinators
  • School Improvement Officers

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Conference Programme

Transfer and Transition: ensuring a smooth transition from KS2 to KS3 is to be held on the 5th February 2008 in London

09:00 – 09:45 Registration
09:45 – 10:00

Chair’s welcome and address

10:00 – 10:30
Keynote 1

Smoothing the transition from KS2 to KS3

Mr. Jeremy Westlake, Assistant Headteacher, Saffron Walden County High School

10:30– 11:15
Keynote 2

Ensuring effective partnerships between primary and secondary schools
Mo Laycock, Headteacher, Firth Park Secondary School
11:15 – 11:30 Morning refreshments
11:30 – 12:30 Streamed Sessions 1 (choose one)

1A
Learning and teaching strategies to ensure students succeed during transition

John Beresford, Associate Lecturer, Open University

1B
Effective use of bridging (transition) materials

Ms C Reep, Hed of Year 7, South Holderness Technology College and Ms Jill Lambert, Deputy Headteacher, Thorngumbald Primary School

1C
Using transfer to re-engage the disaffected learner

Paul Ainsworth, Deputy Headteacher, Belvoir High School

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30– 14:00
Keynote 4

Calming student nerves during transition

Marilyn Tew, Development Director Antidote
14:00 – 15:00 Streamed Sessions 2 (choose one)

2A
Developing an effective transition policy

Celia Moore, Associate Adviser PSD, Suffolk County Council

2B
Tackling the KS3 dip

Dave Harris, Principal, Selby Park School

2C
The psychology of transfer – understanding your students fears

Pauline Preston, Principal Educational Psychologist, Wrexham Council

15:00 – 15:20 Afternoon refreshments
15:20 – 16:20 Streamed Sessions 3 (choose one)

3A
Tackling boys' underachievement during transition

 3B
Effective transfer of data during transition

Dr John Blanchard, Independent Consultant
3C
Ensuring curriculum continuity in your school
16:20 Conference Close

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Transfer and Transition: Ensuring a smooth transition from KS2 to KS3
5th February 2008, Central London

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