Welcome to the Year 1 Information Evening

Our Year - Our Team Mrs Howard Miss Twiddy Mrs Ruddy Mrs Coleman Mrs Guy Mr Tinsdale Mrs Oakley

Weekly Timetable Worship 8.45-9.25 9.25-9.55 9.55- 10.30 Play time   Worship 8.45-9.25 9.25-9.55 9.55- 10.30 Play time 10.45- 11.45 lunchtime 12.45 - 2.00 P l ay t ime 2.15- 3.00 3.00-3.15 M O N Phonics / Guided reading Literacy Maths Physical Development RE Story T U E Phonics/ Guided reading Science PSED / library time W E D Creative/ICT T H U R (PPA) Spellings (PPA) F R I Topic

What are the themes in Year 1 -Term 1- Owl Babies -Term 2- Celebrations -Term 3- Burghley House -Term 4- Seasonal Change -Term 5- Market Deeping -Term 6 – Rule Britannia

How do we judge how well your children are progressing? The children will be working on the Year 1 standards in the new National Curriculum. How do we judge how well your children are progressing? Sharing learning objectives and success criteria together. Questioning Partners/Small group work Self evaluation using Guided groups Recorded work Summative assessment Photo evidence stored on school system

Maths: Term 1 Block 1 Reading, writing and using numbers. Block 2 Addition and subtraction   Block 3 Coin recognition and addition Block 4 Measurement- Time  Block 5 Geometry- 2D shapes School website –> Our Learning -> Maths support

English: Term 1 Block 1 Fiction -Owl Babies - James and the Giant Peach-Roald Dahl week -Night Monkey, Day Monkey - The Owl who was afraid of the dark Block 2 Non- Fiction - Information books about animals

Writing expectations for Year 1 Use spaces between words in writing. Use capital letters and full stops, exclamation marks and question marks. Use phonics when sounding out words to write. Explore spelling rules. Use tricky words spelt correctly. Read through work. Join sentences in different ways. Start sentences in different ways.

Reading expectations for Year 1 Fluent text Examples can be shown on request Phonics screen in June including real and ‘alien’ words.

Science - Animals Materials Human body Changes in the seasons including weather. Plants Trees

Homework Homework policy will be on the school website Homework consists of 6-8 spellings Reading books Sound and tricky word books Topic and Maths some weeks Given out on Friday and collected in on a Wednesday.

What’s happening? 4/10/16 – Harvest Festival 12/10/16&19/10/16 Parents’ Evenings 13/10/16 Individual Photos 21/10/16 Disco 2/12/16 Christmas Fair 16/12/16 Whole School Christmas Service 20/12/16 Carols on the Playground

What can you do to help your child? Listening to your child read and questioning them about what they have read. Use numbers where possible. Use Maths in everyday situations, ask your child to tell you the time, what will it be in …? Encourage your child to be involved with money when shopping, using the right amount of coins etc. Ask them to write shopping lists, cards, a diary of a special occasion.

Useful Information PE – This is on Monday with Mrs Howard and on a Wednesday with Mrs Oakley. Children will need trainers and track suit bottoms on this day. Please ensure that hair is tied back and earrings removed on these days. Children will be swimming on a Wednesday afternoon in Terms 2, 4 and 5. Forest schools will continue. This is a valuable learning experience for children. Further information will be sent out in due course. Children need to bring their water bottles containing water every day. Please keep big bags to a minimum as we do not have room to store things that do not fit in their lockers.

Remember the school website for additional information. Our behaviour policy is all about positivity. We have marbles in the treasure chest. We know that all children learn at different rates, please speak to us if you have any concerns. We have an open-door policy. We are committed to working with you.

We look forward to an exciting term ahead! Thank you for your time.