Transfer from primary school to secondary school

Transfer from primary school to secondary school
participants by choosing a random subset of interviews. All interviews were then coded
using the coding frame and inter rater reliability of .92 was established for a subset of 10
interviews from each set of participants.

Results

The results are presented in four sections: educational needs and concerns about the
move to secondary school, patterns of movement at transfer and preparedness of the
mainstream secondary schools, educational and social needs in Year 7 and differences in
predicted need and provision between primary and secondary school for the SSLD
cohort. .

Year 6 - Educational needs and concerns about the move to secondary school

The majority of the SSLD cohort had completed their KS2 education in
mainstream school 44 (64%) with 5 (7%) attending a special unit/resource in the
mainstream setting and the remainder of the sample in special schools (18 special
language, 2 moderate learning difficulties). Sixty per cent had a statement of special
educational needs with a further 16% on stage 3 or 4 of the 1994 Code of Practice.
Forty-six per cent were currently receiving speech and language therapy, 24% were
under review and 26% had been discharged. Table 2 provides details of the children’s
performance on standardized measures of language. Despite the children’s non-verbal
performance being within the average range, scores on all other measures in Year 6 were
significantly below the average and differed significantly from the children’s non-verbal
results (Dockrell et al., 2007).

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