Transition to School Policy

Well Being

• Having established self care skills
• Eating with minimum supervision
• Have some understanding of keeping themselves safe and be able to articulate some questions and concerns.
• Have a range of strategies for getting help for themselves and others

Belonging

• Have some knowledge about the wider community and environment
• Be comfortable and familiar with the Bethlehem College Campus and primary school facilities
• Be confident making some new friends as well as working and playing with children they know
• Understanding basic concepts about rules, rights and fairness, and the necessity for such rules
• Understand the values of reliability, honesty and courtesy.

Contribution

• Have feelings that are positive and able to respect differences in their peers
• Be confident about their interests, strengths, knowledge, abilities, and experiences which have been built on in the centre learning programme
• Be famaliar with working co-operatively
• Recognize others needs and feelings as well as being able to express their own
• Be able to complete tasks when necessary but understand that one can revisit uncompleted tasks

Communication

• Have language skills for a range of purposes
• Enjoy favourite books and be ready to consolidate concepts about print, such as direction, how words are made up and the correspondence between written and spoken word.
• Have some practical concepts about numbers, counting numerical symbols and applications of numbers, and have used mathmatical understandings for everyday purposes, such as sorting, labeling, perceiving patterns and establishing "fair shares"
• Have had opportunities to use and hear Te Reo
• Have developed some techniques for expressing themselves in music, art, craft, and design

Exploration

• Have extensive prior learning and experiences which will provide a starting point for further learning
• Have experiences in making choices and decisions, setting their own goals and using their initiative
• Have some skills in using a range of equipment safely
• Be able to share responsibility for the class and school environment
• Be able to use discovery, invention, innovation, imagination, experimentation and explorationas means of learning
• Have begun to make sense of the living, and physical world by observing, identifying and describing observable features
• Have experienced opportunities to express ideas, ask questions about things of interest and seek out resources eg: books, adults, media and technology