1. EYFS Curriculum Meeting 2016

2. EYFS Staff Mrs Bryant and Mrs Armour Miss Dick Mrs Lock Mrs Barnett
Mrs Aston
Miss Parmenter
Mrs Clifford

3. This Year School Life Winter Wonderland Out of this world ..
Amazing Animals
Once upon a time
Superheroes

4. Communication Home school book – not checked each day.
Important messages to adult on the gate.
Use the home school book to record each time you read with your child as well as any other learning you have completed at home.
See class teacher after school.
Open door
VLE
Parent Involvement sessions

5. VLE
A VLE or Virtual Learning Environment is a system for delivering learning materials to students via the web. 
The children can access the login page directly or by using the tab on the Thundersley Primary  website.

6. The children have a username and a 4 digit password
The children have a username and a 4 digit password. This can be found in the front of their diaries.
Their user name is often their first and last name with a full stop in the middle e.g. john.smith (no spaces)
There will be useful information on the homepage such as details about our topic and links to useful websites. It is a place where we can display work or photographs of things covered in school.

7. VLE https://thundersleyprimary.eschools.co.uk/classes/view/135543

8. OPEN DOOR
Invited in at the end of the day. Children sent out as normal.
An opportunity to talk to the class teacher and share what your child has been learning.
This half term open door is on a Wednesday.

9. Sharing your child’s learning
Parent Involvement sessions
Thursday 22nd September 9.15am: Curriculum Meeting in the Green Hall
Tuesday 18th October, morning: Number Hunt in the school grounds, younger siblings may attend.
Wednesday 2nd November, morning: Maths Workshop – How to help your child with maths
Wednesday 7th December, afternoon: Nativity performance to parents
Thursday 8th December, evening: Nativity performance to parents
Thursday 15th December, afternoon: Glitter afternoon, no younger siblings.

10. PE and Swimming PE will be on a Wednesday.
PE kits should be kept in school and will be sent home each half- term for a wash.
Earrings must be taken out.
Swimming will be in the summer term.

11. What the children need in school
Each day the children need to bring in:
Their book bag with home school book and reading book,
A water bottle containing water only,
A packed lunch if not having school dinners,
A coat in wet or cold weather,
A sun hat in warm, sunny weather.
ALL ITEMS MUST BE NAMED.

12. Phonics Children will have daily phonics lessons.
Taught one new sound a day during phase 2.
Each letter sound has an action to help the children remember. See Jolly phonics for actions and correct pronunciation.
Correct pronunciation of each sound is really important.

13. Phonics
Once children know the first four sounds: s,a,t,p, they can start to segment and blend.

14. Tricky Words
Tricky words cannot be sounded therefore they cannot be segmented and blended to read.
The children need to learn these words by sight.

15. Reading for Pleasure
Barriers to this…why doesn’t it happen? SATs

17. Dont stop!
Some 44% of 1,000 parents of 6- to 11-year-olds polled said they rarely or never read with their child after their seventh birthday.
Parents should continue reading with their children throughout primary school.

19. Reading at school Daily sessions based on a high-quality text
Independent reading
Group sessions
Whole class reading
Children to bring books to school every day.
Reward system –
25 times – Bronze certificate
50 times – Bronze badge
75 times – Silver certificate
100 times – Silver badge
125 times – Gold Certificate
150 times – Gold Badge

20. Reading at Home
School expectation is for children to read 5 times a week at home.
What kinds of books should my child read?
Children to record in their diaries each time they read – parents to sign

21. How can you help?
Just 10 minutes

22. Take turns
Take turns to read aloud to each other. They can learn from your expressive reading and you can check they are not struggling

23. Talk about it
Ask questions about the book - maybe about what might happen next or a character's motivation
Make sure they understand any new or unusual words or phrases

24. Enjoy it!
"try and lose yourselves in a good story!"

25. Act now before it’s too late!
Reading 6 times a week is an extra hour support for you child.
Children who read outside school were 13 times more likely to read above the expected level for their age

26. Reading at school
Each child will read with an adult at least once a week.
The adults will give each child 1 or 2 reading books a week which follow a reading scheme and need to be read in order. Every child will start on liliac, wordless reading books.
On a Monday and Friday the children will be able to select a free choice book from their colour band.
Please keep books in book bags and bring to school each day.
We will write a note in the home school book when they have read.
When children are ready we will move them on to the next book level.

27. Homework Maths Number cards will be sent home.
Numbers sent home are based on baseline assessment.
Use the cards to help your child to recognise and order numbers.
It is important that the numbers are not always used in order but mixed up.
When your child is ready they will receive more numbers cards up to 20 as well as a +, - and = card.
They can be used to play games such as find the number, which number is missing and making number sentences using the + and – cards,.

28. Homework
Phonics
During phase 2, The majority of children will be given 4 sound cards each week depending on their progress. Your child will be given these cards at the end of the week after they have been taught.
Children need to know letter sound and letter name.
Children can start practising segmenting and blending using the sound cards.
We will check the children’s progress with their sounds.

29. What we are learning - Talking Homework
Name:
Week Beginning: 19th September 2016
What we are learning this week:
This week we have been learning about Starting Big School. We have learnt our golden rules (to be kind, honest, gentle, work hard and look after our property).
In phonics we have been trying to blend letter sounds together e.g c-a-t makes the word cat and m-i-l-k makes the word milk. Can your child blend the sounds together in words like:
s-a-t
p-a-t
l-i-d
b-a-g
a-n-t
In maths we have been learning to count to 20. We have started counting backwards from 10. We are trying to recognise different numerals. Have a go at counting forwards and backwards at home. What numbers can you find when you are out and about?
In Literacy we have been learning to write our names beautifully. Have a go at practising to write your name. Remember to hold your pencil correctly (pinch and on a log) and form your letters accurately.
Any Comments:
Every Wednesday we will send out Talking Homework. It will let you know what the children have been learning that week.
There will some suggested activities that you can complete at home.
To be returned on Monday.

30. Attendance Important to attend every day and to be on time
Descriptor
Threshold
Attendance
Actual
Whole Days
Absent
Learning
Hours Lost
Excellent
100%
190 days
99%
189 days 2 10
Good
98%
186 days 4 20
97%
184 days 6 30
96%
182.5 days
7.5
37.5
Satisfactory
95%
180.5 days
9.5
47.5
Cause for
Concern
90%
171 days 19 95
89%
169 days 21
105
88%
167 days 23
115
87%
165 days 25
125
Unsatisfactory
86%
163 days 27
135
Serious Cause
for concern
85%
161.5 days
28.5%
142.5
84%
159.5 days
30.5
152.5
83%
158 days 32
160
82%
156 days 34
170
81%
154 days 36
180
Critical
80%
152 days 38
190
Important to attend every day and to be on time
If possible try to arrange appointments after school, or during holidays.