Welcome to the Year 1 Information Evening

Our Year - Our Team Mrs Howard Mrs Ruddy Mrs Oakley Mrs Bryson Mrs Wills

Weekly Timetable Worship 8.45-9.25 9.25-10.00 10.00- 10.30 Play time   Worship 8.45-9.25 9.25-10.00 10.00- 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 Physical Development PSHE Story T U E Phonics  Maths Literacy  Science Science W E D Creative/ICT RE T H U R (PPA) Spellings / Special box F R I Topic

Themes in Year One -Term 1- Owl Babies -Term 2- Celebrations -Term 3- Burghley House -Term 4- Seasonal Change -Term 5 and 6- Rule Britannia

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

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 in your pack. Read through work. Join sentences in different ways. Start sentences in different ways.

Reading expectations for Year 1 Fluent text reading Able to answer question Able to find information in a text to find the answer Able to use inference about the text- Please don’t cover the pictures. Examples of the sort of text can be found in your pack Phonics screen in June including real and ‘alien’ words.

Maths expectations for Year 1 Counting forwards and backwards to 100 Counting forwards and backwards in 2,5 and 10 to 100 Know one more/ less, two more/less and 10 more/ less than any given number Know all number bonds to 10 and 20 Know all number doubles up to 10+10 Add and subtract two digit numbers. Solve problems with numbers Know half and double amounts and objects Tell the time to hour and half hour

Homework Homework policy is on the school website Homework consists of spellings each week. This will change after Christmas. Reading books changed on Monday/Tuesday Maths with Numicon weekly Research and topic projects occasionally Given out on Friday and collected in on a Wednesday Special box Please complete homework as independently as possible.

What can you do to help your child? Reading and writing- make them float on a sea of talk Listening to your child read and questioning them about what they have read. Use numbers where possible especially counting. 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 Thursday with Mrs Oakley. Children will need trainers or plimsolls, track suit bottoms, t-shirts, a zipped top or jumper and shorts for PE sessions and socks. Children will be swimming on a Tuesday morning in Terms 2, 4 and 5. Please ensure that hair is tied back and earrings removed on these days. Forest schools will continue. This is a valuable learning experience for children. Children need to bring their water bottles -containing water every day (no squash thank you) Birthday treats.

Please keep big bags to a minimum Please keep big bags to a minimum. We do not have room to store things that do not fit in their lockers. Our behaviour policy is all about positivity. We have marbles in the treasure chest. This leads to a very exciting treat day. Merits certificates. 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. Parent helpers? Yes please. Spare clothes! Remember the school website for additional information.

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