1. Parent Induction Meeting
Welcome to Year One
Parent Induction Meeting

2. What is needed everyday?
Communication book
A named coat and jumper
A named waterproof jacket
A named cup for water
Named fruit (small pots where possible please!)
Named PE kit – indoor and outside
Please encourage children to come in independently with their belongings in their bags.
Please write messages on our class whiteboard.
Please ask your child to hand their communication book to their teacher if there is an urgent message or one that requires a response.

3. What is a typical day in Year One like?
Children are encouraged to enter school independently
They register themselves & change their reading book
Do their Ready Steady Go! activity
Start their learning
Attend reflections
Lunchtime
Continue with their learning
Reading
English PE
Problem
solving
Technology
Teacher
focused/
Child
initiated
Outside
Classroom
Enquiry and
investigation
Creativity
Maths
Integrated
day

4. Our curriculum
In Year 1 our Teaching Assistants are with us for the morning.
The children will spend some of their morning using the outside facilities to enhance their learning.
During the year we work towards the children achieving end of year expectations and extending children by providing opportunties for them to apply key skills e.g. problem solving.
Please help us to look after our facilities and encourage children not to play in vulnerable areas such as the Pond Area before or after school.

5. Topics Autumn – Class Animals, Under the Sea and Global Warriors.
We will let you know about the next topics nearer the time. We do talk to the children about what they want to learn.

6. Feedback Symbols Hard work Target Met Improvement Good Presentation
We use a range of symbols when marking.
Hard work
Target Met
Self-assessment
Improvement
Good Presentation
Next Step Target

7. PPA
Tuesday afternoon is the Year 1 teachers PPA time (Planning, Preparation & Assessment).
This time is planned for by the Year One team and delivered by our team of excellent TA’s, who will also dismiss the class at the end of the day.
The children enjoy a wide range of activities linked to the current topic.

8. Phonics and Word work
Phonic and word work have started in school already and are practised daily.
There is a key word list on the website of all the key words we will be covering in Year One. These can be used for word finding when reading and for spelling practise at home. Weekly phonics and key words for reading and spelling will be shared via the website.

9. Reading Reading at school Reading skills are taught daily.
As well as having reading opportunities every day your child will be given time to extend and develop their reading strategies with the teacher who will communicate with you via the communication diary once a week.
There will be a Key Stage 1 Reading meeting for parents on Wednesday 12th October.

10. Reading
Reading at home
Your child’s homework is to read everyday with you for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Please sign their communication book when you have read with your child.
They can read the same book more than once.
Please support us in encouraging your child to change their books daily.
Books from home or the library can be read alongside school books. Please encourage children to treat Library books responsibly and try and keep them separate from other books at home so they can be identified quickly and easily!
Children will only be allowed to take a new book once the old one has been returned.

11. Open classroom and communication
You are welcome to come into the classroom to look at what your child has been learning after school on a Thursday.
Please respect the privacy of others and only look at your child’s work.
Younger siblings are more than welcome in the classrooms, but please ensure the children are not touching any of the classroom resources particularly the interactive whiteboards.
Any information from us will come via the website or school .

12. Parent Helpers We love to have help!
We ask that parents have a CRB/DBS check before you help us in school. Forms can be obtained from the office.
We particularly need help with school trips and the library on a regular basis – could be a job share!!
Help is sometimes shared between other classes.
Please could you note on the attendance sheet if you would like to help.