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Primary to Secondary

Kingdown School and its feeder Primary Schools are part of a Learning Partnership. They are committed to working together to provide an education that fully prepares all students for the world today and for the future.

Primary Transition Timeline 2025/26

Event

Dates

Notes

Open Day

25th September 2025

 

  • Open Day 3.30pm – 5.00pm

Application Deadlines

1st September 2025 (APPLY From)

  • Closing Date: Friday 31st October 2025

Late Applications

16th Jan 2026 – 24th April 2026

 

  • 26th May 2026 - Offers with be considered
  • June 2026 – Offers will be considered

Data Transfer Forms

March (after half term)

  • Data Transfer Forms given to Primary School to distribute to parents

Offer Day

2nd March 2026

  • Offer letters will be posted/emailed out to parents (Wiltshire County)
  • Parents have to the 13th March to accept Offer

Open Day & Evening

Wednesday 17th June 2026

  • Open Day tours with students 9.00am – 10.30am
  • Open evening activities start 5.00-7.00pm

Heads of House visit to Primary Schools

Various dates in June

  • June – Dates to be confirmed

New Year 7 Parents’ Evening

Tuesday 7th July 2026

  • Parents invited to a meeting at Kingdown – Tuesday 7th  July 2026 6pm
  • Letters sent to parents via the Primary School in June

Induction Day Visits

Wednesday 8th July 2026

 

  • Invitations will be given out when Heads of House visit primary schools

Enhanced Transition Days (SEND)

June 2026

  • June 2026
Additional Transition Days ofr PP/Attendance Dates to be confirmed (July)
  • Dates to be confirmed

The Transition Programme

There is a well established Transition Programme designed to link learning between Key Stages 2 and 3, with a focus on key learning skills. This ensures that the students make a confident start to their Year 7 curriculum. Every effort is made to enable students to settle in quickly and feel part of the Kingdown community in their new Houses, tutor groups and classes.

As a parent, how can I help?

Achieving the balance between doing too much or too little for your child is difficult. A useful rule of thumb is never do anything regularly for your child that they are capable of doing for themselves.

A list of the top ten worries that Year 6 students always mention:

  • Being bullied
  • Not making friends
  • Getting lost
  • Homework
  • Not being able to do the work
  • Getting to school and back – if it involves a bus journey
  • Not having the right books and equipment
  • Not knowing what to do if there’s a problem
  • Not getting on with teachers
  • Getting into trouble

Most students are anxious about not being with their friends and not making new friends. The most helpful thing you can do is tell your child that everyone else will be feeling anxious, and within a week or two their worries will have disappeared.

At Kingdown we make every effort to ensure that no student is socially isolated, and new friendship groups are actively encouraged and supported.

The other major worry for Year 6 students is bullying. Kingdown has a rigorous anti-bullying policy and we pride ourselves on being a ‘telling’ community. Bullying of any description is not tolerated. If your child is being bullied at school, they must tell their tutor, another teacher or any other adult in the school straight away.

The remaining worries are nearly all to do with the new organisational demands that will be placed upon them. Luckily these are the areas in which you can help the most.