1. VICTORY HEIGHTS PRIMARY SCHOOL 2015-2016
NURTURE-CHALLENGE -EXCEL

2. Welcome to Year
(add photos of all your team- CAs and teachers)

3. Specialists

4. Timetables

5. The rocket and how it works…
The rocket is an extension of the behaviour chart used in Foundation Stage.
The children begin each day on the middle of the chart starting on green.
The children move up the rocket for good behaviour/work/manners.
The children move down the rocket when they do not follow our golden rules.
For each colour above green, children can earn points for their house.

6. Topics
The objectives covered in Year 1 are taken from Chris Quigley and the New Curriculum.
This is a skills based curriculum which results in ‘child led learning’.
Our Topics this year are:
Oliver Jeffers
Back in time
Polar Express
Imagine
World of work
Out of this world

7. Writing
By the end of Year 1 children are expected to have achieved Level 1a
Here are examples of what we are aiming for.

11. Maths
We follow the new National Curriculum. By the end of Year 1 children should be able to e.g.
Count read and write numbers to 100.
Add and subtract two digit numbers to 20.
Recognise and name half and a quarter of a shape or a quantity.

12. Arabic
Magda will confirm some info for this page.

13. Supporting learning and how we work…
We encourage the children to work collaboratively through small group work and house events
Children will be challenged through activities that require them to apply their knowledge in real life situations
Streaming (where applicable to year group)
Learning Enhancement…tbc
English as an Additional Language…

14. Engaging students through effective questioning
Our focus this year at VHPS with regard to improving student learning is questioning techniques.
Blooms taxonomy of questions is a widely-accepted framework that many teachers use to guide their students through the learning process. Though not necessarily sequential, the hierarchy of bloom’s taxonomy is often depicted as a pyramid, with simple knowledge-based recall questions at the base. Questions higher on the pyramid are more complex and demand higher cognitive skills from the children.
For the teachers to interpret however you want to so that you are conveying the same message)
Many questions at the lower levels of bloom’s taxonomy – particularly knowledge and comprehension – are closed-ended questions. Higher order reasoning, such as synthesis and evaluation, is developed through the use of open-ended questions. Asking an open-ended question is a way to elicit discussion, brainstorm solutions to a problem, or create opportunities for thinking outside the box. The highest-order open-ended questions engage students in dynamic thinking and learning, where they must synthesize information, analyze ideas, and draw their own conclusions, preparing them for their future, where few issues are black-and-white. Our students today need to become critical thinkers, find their own voice, and be recognized for having opinions that matter.

15. Collaborative Learning Activity
Year groups to decide own collaborative learning activity for parents e.g. spot the difference or fill in the map.
Please try to link to UAE e.g. use images from around Dubai for spot the difference and our school focus of Questioning.

16. Communication
SCHOOL COMMUNICATOR IS BEING FAZED OUT- INFO ON MOBILE APP AND WEBSITE
REPORTS AND ASSESSMENTS (NUMBER PER YEAR - X2 REPORTS AND X4 ASSESSMENTS)
HOMEWORK - HOW MUCH, WHAT, WHEN, ONLINE ACTIVITIES, EXPECTATIONS – SEE POLICY ON GDRIVE FOR YEAR GROUPS
PARENT HELPERS - READERS
PARENT SKILLS - TOPICS
CLASS REP

17. NURTURE – CHALLENGE - EXCEL
‘PARENTS AS PARTNERS’