Moving on to Primary 1: An Exploratory Study of the Experience of Transition from Pre-School to Primary explores the findings of two academics from Stirling University's Institute of Education, Christine Stephen and Peter Cope, who studied the experiences of a group of 27 children during their first year in primary school.
The report observes that for all the children in the sample, contact with their primary school began during the summer term before they transferred.
Children and parents were offered visits to the primary school and there was some transfer of written records.
However, transition arrangements 'typically paid more attention to informing parents and children about the new environment they were entering than to learning about children's pre-school experiences'. Where a child's pre-school experience had involved going to more than one provider, teachers sometimes did not have information from all the settings.
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