1. Welcome Getting to know Year 1
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2. Year 1 Team Inspiring today’s children for tomorrow’s world
Class Teachers – Mrs Baldwin (1AB) Miss Pickup (1HP)
Teaching Assistants (TA’s) – Mrs Rich, Mrs Preston and Mrs Oram
SCITT Trainee – Miss Bennett
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3. 1a New Assessment Scales 1c 1c+ 1b 1b+ 1 1a+ 2c 2c 2c+ 2b 2b 2b+ 2a 2a

4. Our Assessment Procedures APP Writing Tracking and Targeting
Year 1 September entry Teacher assessments
End of term Teacher Assessments
Year 1 phonics screening test.
APP Writing Tracking and Targeting
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Topics
Autumn term topic - ‘Me and my surroundings’.
Spring term topic -‘Toys past and present’.
Summer term topics are ‘the jungle and the beach.’
We are hoping to visit Paignton Zoo which will cost approx £10.
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How to help
Continue to listen to reading on a daily basis.
Continue to work through the phonics sheets and return sheets when completed
Be involved in homework where appropriate
Encourage your child to become more independent
Male role model especially for boys
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7. Expectations and Daily Organisation
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8. Transition from foundation stage to Y1 and preparing pupils for Y2
Autumn Term – Reception model. Free flow with National Curriculum objectives and activities (Supported and independent). Phase out reception model gradually.
Spring Term –Introduce more structured lessons with independent group work.
Summer Term – Working towards whole class teaching, differentiated groups and independent activities.
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Talking friends
Working towards independence and responsibility
- Encourage your child to come into school independently safely not through the car park and off the grass bank.
- Learning to take responsibility of their possessions. E.g jumpers (named please!), letters, reading books, dinner vouchers, PE kit etc.
- Importance of water bottles (named and refilled daily)
- Jobs in the classroom
Break time snacks are provided. We encourage Year 1 to eat a range of fruit in a social setting. It is helpful for your child to ONLY eat the school fruit provided.
School bags. No rucksacks.
Dressing e.g buttons, shoe laces etc.
Toys (Sensible size and only one. Named).
Perseverance. Better learners
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Literacy
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Introduction
National curriculum= Primary National Strategy. three areas. Fiction – Non-fiction – poetry.
Each unit contains three sections Speaking and Listening – Reading - Writing.
Learning Intentions.
Differentiated tasks.
Focus on pride in all written work
Homework: (
Daily reading books and phonics sheets.
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13. Speaking and Listening
At the beginning of every Literacy Unit
- Talking friends
- Role Play
- Audio Books
Radio Assembly
Whole class assemblies
-show and tell, questioning, describing
Vocabulary – Literacy, numeracy & Topic. Big Write includes a section on ‘wow’ words.
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Reading
The National Literacy Primary Strategy;
- Guided reading/ Shared reading- ability groups within units.
- Independent reading. Enjoying books.
- Story time
Home reading books-working together to improve reading skills (if tired read to child). First point of contact.
Book talk
Assessments throughout each half term.
Phonics reading skills.
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Writing
The Primary National Strategy: 3 units
-Narrative
-Non-fiction
-Poetry
GHaSP
Handwriting- (G/M, F/M, joining two letters).
Phonics used as a spelling strategy. High frequency words & tricky words.
Sentences and punctuation.
Vocabulary.
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Handwriting
In the pack there is an alphabet, showing starting point and direction of each letter, plus a ditties sheet for your children to learn.
Taught in ditties for letters and numbers.
Each letter and number has a rhyme to help the children remember its formation.
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Grammar I will write the words in my sentence in the correct order.
Handwriting I will write each letter correctly and begin to practise joining two letters together.
and
Spelling I will spell phase 2 and 3 tricky words. I will segment a word and write the sounds.
Punctuation I will use finger spaces between each word. I am beginning to use a capital letter at the beginning of my sentences.
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Phonics
Week beginning 16th June 2014 Government Phonic Screening test. It is important that your child is present for this.
20 mins of daily phonics.
Letters and Sounds.
Year 1 expectations: Expectations – to reach the end of phase 5 by the end of year 1.
Ability groups and general lesson set up. Apply skills taught independently
Segment and blend (What is this?)
What is a Phoneme? A Phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. This can be made by one or more letters In the word cat there are three phonemes c a t . In the word paint there are four phonemes p ai n t you will notice that ai is one phoneme but has two letters.
What is a grapheme? Is a written representation of a sound; may consist of one or more letters.
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19. c a t p ai n t

20. d a c b ai n s

21. Example of Phonics Homework
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Phases taught in Year 1
Phase 3 - At the beginning of the year most children will know some middle vowel grapheme e.g. ai ur, they will have used them to write CVC words e.g. wait and hurt.
Phase 4 is the next stage to use the graphemes to build up longer words e.g. ee g-r-ee-n. We call this a CCVC word. This should take about a month. (Adjacent Consonants) – found in parents pack.
Phase 5 is a much longer section and will take the rest of the year to complete. It includes new graphemes e.g. split diagraph. a-e used in cake
Alternative pronunciations for vowels and vowel grapheme e.g. a – was or c for cell
Alternative sounds for each phoneme e.g. /ch/ phoneme is used in picture. – found in parents pack.
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Mathematics
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Introduction
National curriculum= Primary National Strategy.
7 areas
Using and applying.
Count and understanding.
Knowing and using number facts
Calculating
Understanding shape
Measuring
Handling data
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Learning Intentions
General lesson layout – mental warm-up, intro, main, plenary.
Differentiated tasks.
Fun in each lesson
Focus on pride in all written work
Homework: (
Practical activity with a comment sheet. E.g Count in twos helping to sort socks in pairs. Snakes and ladders.
Maths is everywhere, see attached sheet.
Mathletics.
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Number work
Aim for children to be confident with numbers – happy to be wrong.
Read write and order numbers to 20 (Teens) (1:1 correspondence)– number lines/square interactive games.
Number bonds (buddy numbers/ Learn its) to 10 – so important.
(e.g → or = 20
Counting reliably on and back/estimating – 2’s 5’s 10’s (counting stick)
Add/ counting on/any order/practical and simple written methods = number sentences/digits. (Vocabulary sheet) Subtraction/take away/find the difference
More/Less (100 square) Mr Weak and Mr Strong
Doubles known as repeated addition
Problem solving (Using and applying)
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28. Thank you for attending tonight; we hope it has been useful!
We look forward to seeing you at the forthcoming parent’s evenings throughout the year!
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