This chapter takes a historical lens to ways in which transition to school has been conceptualised over the last 80 years in Sweden. Drawing on an extensive policy analysis, we analyse changing representations of the six-year-old child starting school, depending on how society has handled issues of the image of the child, school maturity, compulsory schooling, and the transition from home or preschool to school. The key idea is that every education system is about creating the person through education. The vision of the educated child is at the core of educational reforms. Historical discursive claims about the characteristics of the child, or the pupil, mirror the educational subject at a certain time and convey meanings of school maturity and transition to school. With this in mind, we analyse how policy documents describe the nature of the child and what the child should become in the educational institution.