1. Year R to Year 1 Transition Meeting June 2017

3. Emerging – your child is working towards the level of development expected at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Expected – your child is working within the level of development expected at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Exceeding – your child is working beyond the level of development expected at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

4. Key features of narrative
Writing stories, lists, letters, invitations, non-fiction writing independently in the classroom
Ensuring stories have a clear beginning, middle and end,
Events should be clearly connected and characters/storyline developed
Dialogue may be included and descriptive language used to create images in readers mind and enhance the story
Consistently in most pieces of independent work

5. Year 1 Classes Cedar Class - Mrs Bocarro
(Head of Year & Maths Co-ordinator)
Maple Class – Mrs Watkins (Science Co-ordinator)
Oak Class – Miss Aitken (Music Co-ordinator)
Mrs Malony will also be working in Year
(RE Co-ordinator)
There is a Teaching Assistant is each Year 1 class in the mornings only.
As we are a Teaching School for Trainee teachers
there will be student Teachers in all
Year 1 classes sometime during the year.

6. During the first term in Year 1 children will still have the opportunity for :
Outdoor classroom , sand & water play
Using duplo, jigsaws, construction equipment
Writing/reading corner
Puppets, small world play
Work in small groups
But they will start to experience more whole class teaching and working a little more independently

7. Lunch Time
The children will still go into the hall for lunch with their Mid Day Assistant and then go out to play – as in Reception.
It is even more important that your child knows what their choice is for lunch.
We do have a menu in the class and will obviously
help them if they forget!

8. Daily Routine A typical morning in the first term Numeracy Literacy
(Small groups working with Teacher and TA and others with free choice of games related to number or sounds as well as book corner and computer)
ICT
Assemblies are still at the same times
Fruit and Milk still offered

9. Afternoons History Music Science RE Geography Art D & T
During the first term these subjects are taught through discussions, cut and stick and puzzle opportunities as well as looking at and matching pictures and some simple writing opportunities.
PE – twice a week
Library – once a week
children encouraged to choose own book

10. Daily Structure (becoming established by the Spring term)
Year 1
Daily Structure
(becoming established by the Spring term)

11. Mornings 9am - Register 9.10 - Numeracy 10 am- 10.15 – Assembly
10.15 – Phonics
Playtime & Fruit-milk
Literacy

12. Lunchtimes
12 noon – 1.15
Packed lunch & School Dinner children either go out to play for 10 minutes then into hall for lunch OR go straight into the hall
After lunch – supervised in playground by Mid-day Assistants

13. 2 Typical Afternoons 1.15pm Register 1.30pm PE 2.15pm Handwriting
Library
3.00pm Home time
1.15pm Register
1.20pm Science
2.15pm Music
2.45pm Story
3.00pm Home time

14. Reading Books Changed twice a week
Children choose their own book within a set book band
Children need to get into the good habit of keeping their reading book in their book bag which they should bring to school every day

15. Homework Usually starts after October half term
Given out most Fridays – on blue paper -and we encourage the children to try to bring it back when they can during the first few days of the next week

16. Types of Homework Number work Science
e.g. addition , number games, shopping games, measuring items in home,
Science
e.g. recognising signs of seasons, different plants and animals

17. Geography Literacy e.g. weather, seasons, maps, plans
e.g. matching rhyming words, putting in capital letters & full stops
and spelling later on in the year

19. KIRFs Key Instant Recall Facts
To help develop children’s fluency in mathematics, we have introduced:
Key Instant Recall Facts - which will be sent home each half term. We expect children to practise their KIRFs regularly each week.

20. KIRFs
These KIRFs are aligned with the new curriculum. They are intended to be challenging and are designed to support the development of the mental skills that underpin much of the maths work in schools

22. Home School Links Book
The Blue Home School Links Book should be kept in the book bag if possible.
As in Reception you can write in it when listening to your child read
You are also welcome to write any comments if your child enjoys their homework sheet or found it difficult
BUT
Please – if you want an answer to a
quick question please come and ask
at the end of the day

23. General Information
Do not worry if you are away for the weekend or have visitors etc. – homework is not compulsory so if you do not have the time - don’t let your child worry.
If your child is absent when letters are given out they are put in their tray to collect when they come back

24. Children still get Head Teacher points in Year 1
Encourage your child to remember to put their dinner ticket into the dinner pot, hand any letters to their Teacher or TA – but we will remind children to do this and ask them for any letters
PLEASE label all your child’s school jumpers, cardigans, coats, plimsolls
PE kit etc.

25. Home Time Arrangements
If your child goes to Kaos, is collected by a child-minder or is collected by a grandparent or family friend - please make sure you write a letter giving your child’s new teacher this information as soon as possible in the new term.

26. End of the Day
Year 1 children come out of the school through the door opposite the Library.
For the first few weeks please try and stand where you can be seen and the teachers can see you.

27. Things you can do to help your child during the summer holidays
Ensure they can dress themselves –
there is no-one to help Year 1 teachers in the afternoon when the children do PE
Keep up the reading on a regular basis
Encourage some independence – the children will be expected to start being more independent in Year 1 right from
the start !

28. PTA Coffee Morning
The PTA will be holding their last coffee morning of the
Year next Monday and I shall be there if anyone wants
to ask questions - perhaps something you think about
after today.
Miss Aitken and Mrs Watkins will also pop into the coffee
morning so why not try to come along and meet them in a
more relaxed occasion.

29. Thank You for coming along to this meeting Any questions ?