1. Ightham Primary School
OAK Class
Mrs Dix & Mrs Haswell
Ightham Primary School

2. HOME-SCHOOL CONTACT BOOK
Important link between home and school
Homework and letters
Signed daily by staff

3. MEDICINES
All prescribed medicines need to be taken to the school office by an adult – we cannot give the children medicines which have not been prescribed, e.g. cough sweets, calpol.
Medication form to be completed
2x Inhalers / Epi-pens (one in office & one in class) to be in school at all times. Please send them into school in clear plastic boxes and ensure the box is clearly labelled.
Allergies

4. TIMETABLE
The weekly timetable will be displayed in the classroom and available on the class page of the website.
PE – Monday afternoon this term.
Swimming – Thursday afternoon.

5. UNIFORMS AND P.E. KIT Please label EVERYTHING!
Smart uniform is required everyday
Wellingtons
Long hair must be tied up
During term time, P.E. kit should be in school everyday
No nail polish
If applicable – earrings, one set of plain studs (children must be able to remove their own earrings for PE lessons)

6. SNACKS Fruit / vegetables snacks – labelled bags/boxes Milk

7. THE SCHOOL DAY
Staff are on duty from 8:35am – please no children on the playground earlier than this.
-Bell rings at 8:50am
-Children line up in register order
School day begins at 8:50am
Play time at 10.45am
Lunch at 12.20pm
School day ends at 3.20pm

8. STATIONERY All stationery is provided by the school
Y5 /6 may bring in fountain pens
If children bring in their own pencil cases, please encourage them to think about their size as they need to fit into their trays and their contents – it should be stationery that may actually be needed in class.

9. MARKING
Work will be marked against the specific Learning Objective (WALT)
Pink for positive comments
Green for next steps
Spelling
VF – verbal feedback

10. BELOW AGE-RELATED EXPECTATIONS
ASSESSMENT
Throughout the year, formative assessments are carried out and each child’s progress is assessed against age-related expectations. Your child will therefore be in one of four broad bands for Reading, Writing and Maths:
Below Age-Related Expectations
Emerging
Expected
Exceeding
BELOW AGE-RELATED EXPECTATIONS
EMERGING
EXPECTED
EXCEEDING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The expectation is that your child would be in the “Emerging” band at the start of the school year. This is because the curriculum for that year would not yet have been taught to your child. By the end of the school year, the expectation would be that your child would be in the “Expected” band. “Expected” means that your child is working at the expected level for a child of that age.
Parent Consultations will take place in Terms 1 and 4.
End of Year Reports are sent home in July

11. BEHAVIOUR
Class Rules (code of conduct, School rules & decided by the children)
Individual rewards: House points & a stamp if on the “very good” smiley face still at the end of the day.
Class rewards: The class have decided on a tea party on a Friday afternoon when 100 points have been won.
Tidy Ted for tidy desks throughout the school day.
Consequences: minutes of break time lost – parents informed after 3rd offence.

12. READING
Reading books
Your child is responsible for changing his / her book when needed.
Please use the reading section in the Home-School Contact Book to note down which page your child has read to and any difficulties.
Weekly Library visits.

13. 15 minutes daily reading independently
HOMEWORK
Homework will be on a sticker or clipped into Home-School Contact books
Reading
15 minutes daily reading independently
Every day
n/a
Spellings
5 minutes per day
Monday
English and Maths
30 minutes each
Friday
Wednesday
X Tables
5 minutes daily
Tested every week
Humanities/Science homework may be handed from one lesson to the next (the following week) dependent on the topic being covered.

14. ABSENCE Please notify the school by telephone before 8.50am
If your child has been sick or had diarrhoea, they must be kept home for a minimum of 48 hours after the last occurrence
If your child arrives after the register has been taken, please ensure you sign them in at the school office

15. A chance for your child to share his / her work with you.
DROP IN
Thursday 3.25pm – 3.40pm
A chance for your child to share his / her work with you.

16. MOBILE PHONES
Mobile phone is taken to the office at the beginning of the day.
Only collected at the end of the school day (3.20pm).

17. WALKING HOME ALONE
Permission is needed in writing – on a separate piece of paper rather than in contact books please.

18. EXPERIENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Do you have any job skills or hobbies that you could bring into school and share with the Year 6 children this year?
Parent volunteer meeting at 9am on Thursday 14th September.

19. QUESTION TIME ?