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In April last year, the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (Pacey) delivered seminars on findings from Starting School Together, a £350,000 government-funded project helping schools, childcare professionals and families in Cambridgeshire and North Yorkshire jointly improve school-readiness.
Among those inspired was Heather Rick, early years school improvement consultant for the London borough of Waltham Forest, where early years "health checks" had shown a need to strengthen school transition. "While we've got [early years] practitioners and schools doing sterling work, it often didn't match and come together," she recalls.
So the council commissioned a £10,000 project from Pacey to build partnerships and revamp the borough's transition document, a child's profile compiled by early years staff for schools, to increase its usefulness for all involved. "Teachers were saying: ‘If we've got 90 kids joining, we don't have time to read four pages for each," recalls Rick.
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