With the transition to secondary school looming for Year 6 pupils there are various activities designed to aid them preparing for the change. “Our carefully curated collection of transition resources is perfect for ensuring your children are prepared for Year 7 and ready to engage with the secondary curriculum. Help them to make a positive and confident transition from UKS2 to KS3 with our literacy and numeracy resources on a broad range of topics – from letters and debates to mathematical investigations and Year 6 worksheets.” teachit.co.uk/primary/transition
Teachit has a set of fun activities:
- How embarrassing! A letter-writing task
- Independent reading activities
- Dear form tutor – Year 7 transition letter
- My TV terror – persuasive writing ideas
- New Recruit – a Reading activity from Anthony Horowitz
- A Pen pal project
- Sculpture-inspired creative writing
- Syllables and word stress patterns- a worksheet
- This is your life! Making a presentation -Spoken language
- The abandoned house – a piece of narrative writing
- Hooray for a longer school day? A discussion and debate
- Coordinates and shapes- Coordinates and the four quadrants A geometry worksheet
- Dice investigation – Problem-solving a self-assessment worksheet
- Finding the mean, median, mode, and range – a starting statistics worksheet
- Investigating quadrilaterals using scissors – three sets of activities
- Scrabble-type maths investigation
- Smarties maths investigating fractions, decimals, and percentages
- The Letter of the Law – applying algebra
- Fraction word problems for Year 6
- Design your own website PowerPoint
- Design your own website booklet
- Managing change PowerPoint
- Moving on
- All about me
- A desert island challenge based on Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
I particularly like the form tutor letter, the New Recruit, This is your Life, and the Hooray for a longer school day debate. All of the resources are freely shared, to get the editable doc version teachers need to be a subscriber.