Attendance and Transition Toolkit for Early Years (0 - 5 years)

The Transition and Attendance Good Practice Toolkit is comprehensive pack of information designed to support all early years practitioners from childminders and private day nurseries through to maintained nursery, first and primary schools.

Transition Information

In this section you will find guidance and good practice which is intended to support practitioners, children, parents and carers at key transition points in Early Years settings.

Managing transition in early years settings - guidance for practitioners (21.5 KB, pdf)

Transition - examples of good practice (11.5 KB, pdf)

Special Educational Needs in Early Years (124.6KB, pdf)

Managing transition in playgroup settings (26.3KB, pdf)

Starting School

A guide for parents - template (Word, 349 KB)

Starting school - basic rules (15.2 KB, pdf)

Admission

Pre-entry profile - Template (43.5 KB, word)

School Admission Form - Example (389.5 KB, word)

Common Assessment Framework (CAF) form

Application for Reception school places.

Learning and Teaching

In this section you will find the model policy, including development of good attendance habits and monitoring and evaluation arrangements

Model Learning and Teaching Policy (25.8 KB, pdf)

School Attendance

In this section you will find information designed to help schools create their own Whole School Attendance Policy. It gives the background to developing a Whole School Approach to attendance; moving towards an Attendance Policy and diagrams and explanations of a model for an Attendance Policy.

Whole School Attendance Policy (38.8 KB, pdf)

Attendance Environment and Good Practice Checklist (27.6 KB, pdf)

School Holidays

Family Holidays in Term Time - Guidance (19.3 KB, pdf)

Pupil Holiday Absence Request Form (44.5 KB, word)

School Terms and Holidays 2011 - 2012 (106 KB, pdf)

School Term and Holidays 2012 - 2013 (105.13KB, pdf)

Safeguarding

Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how organisations will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do. They provide a number of training options.

Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board - Training (external link)