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Year 6→7 Transition Gap: What Teachers Say & What to Do

A practical, earlier–wider–shared approach to transition in Australian schools, drawing on the Renaissance Australia / YouGov Teacher Survey (2025) and short student stories.

Preparation starts late

Teachers report uneven timing for transition planning.

Gaps you can’t see in grades

Organisation, emotional regulation, and motivation top the list.

Do more, with less time

Personalisation expectations rise while teacher time is squeezed.

What you’ll learn

  • Why decisions made on partial data drive misplacement and late interventions.

  • How an earlier, broader handover (attainment + brief cognitive + early wellbeing survey) changes the first six weeks.

  • A light-touch toolkit: one-page profiles, shared routines, a Week-3 survey.

  • Measures that matter: fewer class placement changes; improved independent work rates; rising confidence.

What’s inside the PDF

  • Executive summary + key stats teachers care about

  • Mapping teacher challenges across the Year 6-7 transition period

  • Student stories (Amy, Hamza, Samira)

  • Toolkit and implementation checklist

  • Wider research summary & references

Watch the 2-minute student stories

[2:03]

Articulate Amy – the confident reader who quietly slips.

A confident reader whose spatial gap hid beneath strong verbal skills – and how a wider lens changed the trajectory.

[2:08]

Hesitant Hamza – the diligent newcomer whose voice goes missing.

A diligent newcomer with strong quantitative and non-verbal reasoning, masked by developing English.

[1:54]

Spatial Samira -the “average” student who isn’t average at all.

Placed mid-set, Samira looked average – until a brief cognitive snapshot revealed a spatial profile worth building on.

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