Key Principles

Stoke has a high level of in year transcience.  To support new children, this Mobility Pathway seeks to set out procedures which are followed by staff at Stoke Primary School. 

Children joining Stoke Mid-Year

Stoke is informed of new starters through Primary Admissions.  As soon as possible thereafter, parents are contacted and an admissions meeting is held.  It is Stoke’s intention to admit new starters without delay particularly when the children are not currently attending a school (eg. they are new arrivals from overseas).  An admissions meeting is held by the Mobility Lead or one of the trained team and during this meeting, core information is gathered and shared including any Safeguarding or SEND needs (See Appendix 1 for the admissions forms used).

Where there are any Safeguarding or SEND needs, contact is made with the relevant personnel at the child’s current school and further relevant information is sought.

The child is allocated to a class and to a house team and this information is shared with relevant staff so that they can prepare for the new starter. 

As soon as a child has started, where they are EAL, the school’s EAL assessment tool is completed with the child which robustly assesses the child at the point of entry.  Staff use the information gathered from the assessment and other information known to them including the pathway criteria to allocate them to a red, amber or green pathway (see Appendix 2 for the pathway criteria). 

Within the first fortnight of admission to Stoke, admissions form 3 (see Appendix 1) is completed by class staff and returned to the Mobility Lead so that any concerns can be addressed without delay.

EAL children

All EAL children who are on the red, amber or green pathway will have support offered to them as per Appendix 3.

All new to English children (red pathway children) receive at least 15 one hour sessions of Stoke’s new to English learning programme which aims to provide a foundation to speaking, listening to and understanding the English language.  Phonics and Reading are also targeted during these one hour sessions.

Stoke’s pathway tracker is updated half termly through re-assessment using the school’s EAL assessment tool and/or formative assessment.  All children who are on the red pathway will have an Red Pathway plan on Edukey which sets out SMART targets for Reading, Writing, spoken English and a social target to ensure that needs are met and that the relevant provision is in place to move the children towards accessing the full curriculum as quickly as possible.

Children transferring from Stoke Mid-Year

Stoke is informed of transfer requests through Primary Admissions.  Once a confirmed destination is known, contact is made with the new school for any children for whom there are Safeguarding concerns or SEND needs.  As soon as possible, following confirmation that the child has started in the new school, all relevant files are transferred.