Case Study: How SixIntoSeven helped save time, reduce workload, and improve transition outcomes for pupils at Pikes Lane Primary School
THE CHALLENGE
Pikes Lane Primary School in Bolton supports around 519 pupils in a highly deprived area within Bolton. Each year, around 60 children transition from Year 6 to Year 7, heading to as many as 15 different secondary schools with Rachel Burke, Pastoral Lead taking ownership on the process.
Managing these transitions used to involve multiple face-to-face meetings between staff and receiving schools, alongside lengthy paperwork and follow-up calls. As Pastoral Lead, Rachel Burke worked closely with the SENCO and Year 6 team to coordinate these efforts, a process that often took up much of the summer term.
This approach presented three main issues:
Time-intensive coordination, where key staff were being pulled away from other priorities.
Inconsistent handovers, with information often recorded manually or informally, and occasionally key data being missed.
Concerns about data security, particularly when sharing sensitive safeguarding details from school to school.
