For primary schools
Help your Year 6 settle into secondary school
Share your Year 6 as group totals with your cluster secondary, safely, so your pupils' next school can plan for them before they arrive.
How the Year 6 return works
A short page for primary schools. It takes the Year 6 information you already hold and turns it into group totals your secondary can use.
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Choose your secondary
Pick the secondary most of your Year 6 pupils move on to, then your own school.
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Add your Year 6 figures
Upload a Year 6 list from your MIS with names removed, or type the totals in. Leave anything you don't have blank.
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Check what's shared
The page shows exactly what goes to the secondary. Groups under 5 pupils are hidden automatically.
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Send it
Email the file to your secondary. They import it and see their whole incoming Year 7 before September.
What's shared, and what isn't
Group totals onlyAttendance, reading, eFSM share and additional learning needs for your Year 6 as a group.
No namesNo names, UPNs, dates of birth or addresses leave your school.
Small groups hiddenAny group under 5 pupils is left out, so no child can be picked out.
You see it firstNothing is sent until you've checked it and emailed it yourself.
How it helps your school
Your pupils are expected
Their secondary can plan support, staffing and transition work before September, rather than finding out in October.
A safe way to hand over
One consistent return for your cluster, with no pupil names in emails or spreadsheets.
A shared picture for the cluster
Secondary leaders see which primaries have sent a return, so transition conversations start from the same figures.
Little extra work
It uses information you already hold in your MIS, in a short form with nothing to install.
What's coming for primary schools
Today, primary schools take part through the Year 6 return. We want to hear what would help primary leaders most.
Interested for your cluster?
Register interest, and tell us whether you're a primary, a secondary or a local authority.