Other resources to support pupils at transition

These links provide additional guidance, support or resources for school leaders when considering transition as well as some case studies from transition related programmes.

• Transition tool – the EEF School Transitions Tool poses questions for reflection for school leaders to support transition decisions and focuses upon:
  • curriculum continuity
  • school routines and expectations
  • healthy peer networks      
• Inclusion in Practice published a report Summer 2025 exploring the emerging evidence regarding promising approaches and useful examples of inclusive practice in mainstream settings. One of the key findings unpacks the key role transition plays in supporting inclusion.
  • Download: IIP Emerging Insights Report (PDF)
• The Delivering Better Value programme focused on improving transition. Voice 21 were commissioned to work with 7 schools to explore how a focus on improving the oracy (speaking and listening skills) of KS2 and KS3 pupils might improve the experience of transition for pupils, particularly those more vulnerable learners. This report describes the learning from the project:
  • Voice-21-Lets-Talk-at-Transition-Report (PDF)
• Several Primary and Secondary Schools are also involved with a 3 year research programme with the University of Manchester called TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL TRANSITION 5-7 (TAST 5-7). TaST 5-7 is a universal, class-based intervention aimed to improve children’s emotional wellbeing over the transition from primary school to secondary school. TaST 5-7 does this by developing children’s awareness, knowledge and ability to cope with the multiple changes they will experience over primary-secondary school transition, through an established transition curriculum. The impact of the programme is being measured using a questionnaire called the Primary-Secondary School Transitions Emotional Wellbeing Scale (#P-S WELLS). The latest report findings can be found here:
  • P-S WELLS Phase 3 School Report January 2026 (PDF)