Dear Parents/Carers,

Today is Olton’s in-school transition day and children who are currently in Nursery up to Year 5 will spend the day in their new classroom with their new teacher.  Many of our Year 6 children will also have a transition day at their secondary school today or tomorrow and you will have been contacted directly by the secondary school about the arrangements for this day.

Although the children will spend the day in their new classes for September, their start and finish times will still be the same as they are at the moment.  This means that even though our Year 2 children will spend the day with their Year 3 teacher, their soft start time is still 8:35am-8:45am and their finish time will still be 3:15pm.

When children arrive in the morning they will go to their current class.  Once everyone is registered, all the children will move to their new classroom to spend the whole day with the teacher they will have next year.  This means that when you collect at the end of the school day, you will need to go to your child’s new classroom or to the playground.

If your child is in the juniors or moving up to Year 3 (Leopards or Pandas), they will need to be collected from the KS2 playground at the end of the day.  If your child is going to be in Gibbons with Mrs Garner from September, please collect directly from the Gibbons’ classroom door in the lower school block (where Mrs Lewis is with Wallabies currently) at 3:15pm.

If your child is currently in Nursery, Reception or Year 1, please collect from their new classroom at 3:15pm.

If you are trying to locate a classroom at the end of the day, Mr Chamberlain and Mrs Gray will be on hand to direct you.  Below is some information which may help you navigate your way around the school site.

• Infant block (side nearest to the road) as you enter from the gate that leads off the main drive the classrooms are in the following order:

Sea Lions, Dolphins, Otters, Meerkats, Bobcats, Lemmings.

• Infant block (side nearest to the field) as you look along with the infant block to your left, the classrooms are in the following order:

Gibbons, Seals, Whales, Penguins, Chameleons/Robins.

We hope that by collecting the children from their new classroom or on the playground will enable you to meet their new teacher at the end of the day.  Please be patient when staff are dismissing the children as teachers will need to check carefully who they are dismissing to, as parents/carers are unfamiliar to them at this stage.  If there is someone different collecting your child today, please make sure you have let the office know and provided a password.

Transition day is designed to help the children familiarise themselves with their new environment and teacher to support a smooth transition in September.  We hope the children have an enjoyable day. 

Please speak to your child’s teacher if you have any queries. 

Yours sincerely,

Mr Chamberlain                    Mrs Gray

Head Teacher                        Deputy Head Teacher