1. Welcome to the Year 1 Transition Meeting for Parents
Nicky

4. Year 1 Classes Children met their new teachers today
Organisation of new classes
Opportunities to mix with old and new friends
Exploring the new learning areas of Year 1 – both outside and inside
Finding out about routines and expectations
Ros with Rachel & Nicky if helpful regarding info about how we formed the classes

8. Staff Beech Teacher Mrs Catherine Sandercott
Learning Support Assistant Mrs Rebecca Fryer (Mon – Wed) and Mr Timothy Cochrane (Thurs – Fri)
Rowan Teacher Mrs Ros Priddle (Mon & Tues) and Mrs Rachel Cochrane (Wednesday – Friday)
Learning Support Assistant Miss Zoe Biddlecombe
Year Leader Mrs Catherine Sandercott
KS1 Leader Mrs Nicola Shaw
Associate Senior Leader Mrs Liz Woodall
Nicky

9. Transition into Year 1
Transition between Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum to National Curriculum
Transition already begun (morning play, assemblies, story swaps, daily whole class writing, phonics and ‘whizzy maths’ lesson etc)
‘Slide in’ transition rather than ‘Stop / Start’ transition
Continuing: exploring and learning, daily phonics lesson, Maths and English teaching
Initially - whole class input, and one group working with teacher daily
Developing - until all children work daily on lesson after whole class teaching
Timescale – flexible, during the Autumn Term
Rachel

10. National Curriculum Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Core subjects: English, Maths, Science
Foundation subjects: Art and design, Computing, Design and technology, Languages (French), Geography, History, Music, Physical Education. Also statutory Religious Education
Discrete English, Maths and Science
Discrete Music, PE and French
Art and design, computing, design and technology, Geography and History taught with close ‘topic’ links – subjects have heavier weighting in different topics
Sam with support from Rachel and Nicky

11. Growth Mindset
Those with growth mindset make better progress in learning
Fixed or Growth mindset
Fixed mindset – intelligence fixed (can’t be changed)
Look clever at all costs
It should come naturally
Hide mistakes and deficiencies
I can’t do it
Growth mindset – ability can grow with practice
Learn at all costs
Work hard, effort is key
Learn from mistakes and deficiencies to go forward with increased skill / knowledge
I can’t do it YET
Praise – mixed blessing
Praise for the learning that has taken place, noticing progress
Verbalise learning – HOW did you do it? Make unconscious learning conscious

12. Key points in the year Parent consultations Written report
Christmas KS1 concert
Year 1 National Phonics screening: Summer term
KS1 Singing Festival run by Hampshire Music Service
Sports day
School trips: to be confirmed by end of term – maximum once per term
Nicky

13. Practicalities Uniform (school shoes please, no boots)
Book bag (only books please, no water bottles in the bags)
Homework:
reading 5x per week
Sharing (once every three weeks) more of a theme than Year R
topic based work every term – topic jigsaw
sound of the week
Fruit and milk at playtime (optional milk from age 5)
Water bottles
Nicky

17. Summer learning To keep up skills over the summer
Hampshire Library Service reading scheme – Discovery Centre
Homework task – weekly ‘diary’ in any format you wish
Talk about numbers, money, time and measures wherever you see them
Junk modelling junk please! (clean only!)
Ros

18. Reading Two parts Re-telling and talking about what you have read
De-coding
Reading
5 x per week at home
Daily reading in class during phonics lessons
Hearing stories, poetry and non-fiction with the teacher
1-1 with the class-teacher or TA every fortnight
Guided Reading sessions 2x per week, once with class teacher and once with TA
Teacher will judge when each child is ready for more challenge and will assess throughout the year.
Ros