Kindergarten teachers create a traor nsition statement for each child enrolled in a kindergarten program at the end of the year. The transition statement: helps ensure your child has a positive start to school summarises your child's learning and development at the end of the kindergarten year contains valuable information, such as your child's strengths and interests, and suggestions for support to transition to school is given to you when it is completed. The Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) encourages kindergarten teachers to work with you and your child to complete the transition statement.
Consent form 1
You should have already received and returned Transition statement consent form 1, which asked you to consent to your child's kindergarten creating a transition statement for your child in the secure online application provided by the QCAA. If you did not give your consent, your child's transition statement will have been created in the alternative QCAA Microsoft Word template.
Consent form 2 (this form)
In this form, you are asked to consent to the kindergarten sharing your child's transition statement with your child's new school, and to provide the school name so that the kindergarten can share it, either:
- within the QCAA's secure online application - if you gave consent for the statement to be created in the applicationOr
- as a hard copy - if you did not give consent for it to be created in the application and the alternative QCAA Microsoft Word template was used.
If you do not consent for the kindergarten to share, or you do not complete this form, you will need to personally share your child's transition statement with their new school.
Your privacy
This form will be retained by the kindergarten in accordance with applicable privacy law. For more information, visit www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/kindergarten/qklg/supporting-transition-schoo. transition-statements.