The Boxall Profile® Online Transition Passport

Guide

A Guide to the Boxall Profile® Online Transition Passport

Transitions are pivotal moments in children’s development and form a cornerstone of the Six Principles of Nurture. Every transition requires careful management through understanding, thorough preparation, and consistent support.

Significant life transitions, particularly moving from primary to secondary school, are more successful when a child’s developmental journey and experiences are shared with their new environment. This vital context helps ensure continuity of support and enables the new setting to better understand and respond to each child’s unique needs from the very beginning.

This guide explores how the Boxall Profile® Online Transition Passport feature can help support children and young people in transitions between years, schools and teachers.

Supporting transitions

As explained in our transitions guide, when children experience transitions – whether moving between school years, changing schools, adapting to new teachers, or relocating to different areas – these periods mark significant changes filled with both excitement and uncertainty. These transitions require careful consideration as pupils navigate unfamiliar environments, new expectations, and different relationship dynamics. The Transition Passport feature supports these journeys by enabling schools to share crucial developmental information and proven strategies that have supported each child’s progress.

The Boxall Profile® Online Transition Passport

Through the Boxall Profile® Online, educators can now create a comprehensive transition document that captures a pupil’s developmental journey, strengths, and areas for support. This valuable insight helps receiving staff understand and respond to each child’s needs from day one, ensuring continuity of care across any transition. Whether it’s moving from one year group to another, changing schools entirely, or adapting to new teaching staff, the Transition Passport helps maintain consistent, nurturing support throughout these important changes.

Developmental data

The Transition Passport includes comprehensive assessment data drawn from both the Developmental Strands and Diagnostic Profile of the Boxall Profile®. This provides receiving staff with detailed insights into a child’s social, emotional, and behavioral development across key areas – from their ability to engage purposefully with learning to how they manage their emotions and form relationships.

The assessment information helps identify both strengths to build upon and areas where additional support may be needed, allowing for a nuanced understanding of each child’s developmental stage and ensuring appropriate strategies can be put in place from the start.

Personalised insights

The Transition Passport enriches assessment data with valuable contextual information drawn from direct experience with each pupil. Educators can share specific observations about learning preferences, document which strategies have proven most effective, and highlight personal interests that could help build connections in new environments.

These thoughtful insights go beyond numbers and charts to capture the unique journey of each child – from noting significant progress milestones to identifying approaches that particularly resonate with them. This personalised information helps receiving staff quickly understand not just where a pupil is developmentally, but who they are as an individual.

Seamless sharing

The sharing feature enhances the secure and efficient transfer of crucial developmental information. This feature generates a unique QR code and public URL for each pupil’s Transition Passport, allowing educators to easily share the document with designated recipients. The shared version of the passport prioritises data protection by omitting personally identifiable information, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.

Recipients can initiate a formal request for full access directly from the passport, maintaining a secure and controlled information-sharing process. This streamlined approach facilitates smoother transitions while safeguarding sensitive pupil data, aligning with best practices in educational data management.

Continuity of care

The Boxall Profile® Online Transition Passport allows new school leaders to understand and meet the child or young person where they are and have insights into their strengths and areas of need, from their first day in school. With a Boxall Profile® Online subscription, new staff can build on previous work by continuing with assessments, strategies and plans with the tool.

Where can I find out more?

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The Boxall Profile® Online is an evidence-based tool supporting a whole school approach to assessing and addressing children and young people’s social, emotional and behavioural development to positively impact learning, behaviour, attendance and wellbeing.


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