Here you'll find information for NSW public schools who receive new Transition to School Digital Statements from ECE services participating in the trial.
What is the Transition to School Statement?
The Transition to School Statement was developed in partnership with teachers, educators and families and provides valuable information about individual children, aimed to support and enhance their transition to school.
The Transition to School Statement is completed by a child’s early childhood educator and sent to the child’s prospective primary school.
The information in the statement records the child’s interests, strengths and preferred ways of learning. This information can assist Kindergarten teachers to get to know the children entering their classrooms, plan appropriate learning and teaching programs and provide an opportunity for children, their families and teaching staff to support a child’s successful transition to school.
What is the Transition to School Digital Statement?
In 2020, the Department developed and piloted a digital version of the Transition to School Statement with a small set of early childhood education services, and schools linked to these early childhood services.
This year we have made improvements to the Transition to School Digital Statement and will trial the new version with a group of ECE services and NSW public schools. We plan to roll out the Transition to School Digital Statement to more ECE services and schools from 2022, incorporating feedback from this trial.
For children commencing school in 2022, the use of a digital statement offers a new way to help them connect into their new school community.
What is the change for schools receiving new Transition to School Digital Statements as part of the trial?
If an early childhood education service completes statements using the new Transition to School Digital Statement portal for children in the 2022 cohort at a NSW public school, the school will be invited by email to access the new Transition to School Digital Statement schools dashboard. Schools will be able to view Statements completed for children in their 2022 cohort using the new dashboard.
The information in the Transition to School Digital Statement can assist Kindergarten teachers to get to know the children entering their classrooms, plan appropriate learning and teaching programs and provide an opportunity for children, their families and teaching staff to support a child’s successful transition to school.
Teachers can use the Educators Guide to the Transition to School Statement NSW (PDF, 256KB) to interpret the information provided by early childhood education services.
Why has my school not received any statements via the new Transition to School Digital Statements schools dashboard?
Schools that have not received any statements via the new schools dashboard do not have any linked early childhood education services taking part in the trial using the new Transition to School Digital Statement for their 2022 Kindergarten cohort.
Why might I still receive different versions of the Transition to School Statement?
As the Transition to School Digital Statement is still in trial phase, your school may continue to receive the paper-based version of the Transition to School Statement.
I’ve received Transition to School Statements for students that are not enrolled at my school.
Parents indicated the school their child would be attending in 2022, and this information is used to distribute digital statements to those NSW public schools.
You do not need to forward the statement to a different school. Please retain the statement in the event the child’s parent is yet to complete the school enrolment process.
Where can I provide feedback on the process?
We would love your feedback on the way in which schools are receiving Transition to School Statements so we can improve the process for NSW primary schools once this digital version is made available to all NSW early childhood education services.
Please email ecec.transitions@det.nsw.edu.au with your feedback.