1. Welcome
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2. Data Protection
Changes to Data Protection from May 18(GDPR). All schools are working within their local authority and their data protection officer to update our current practises to ensure we are line within this legal framework.
At present we use minimum of your/ your child’s information in carrying out day to day communication and teaching and learning opportunities. We currently use some online programmes such as Nessy to support learning. If you wish your child NOT to use online learning until you have signed a new data protection please speak to staff at the end of the welcome evening.
We’ve been asked to put this slide in to make you aware of changes to Data Protection.

3. Data Protection
Updated permission forms will be issued in agreement with ELC. Please contact Ms Macartney or ELC if you have specific questions.
AT THE END OF TONIGHT; Please collect your forms which require you to update your contact information and return completed paperwork. The data you have provided will be held on our systems whilst your child is at SYPS, to communicate with you and to carry out learning , teaching and assessment.

4. Reporting on your Child’s Progress
We currently explore ways to sustain parental partnerships by:
holding 2 Parent teacher consultations . (1-1 parent teacher consultation and a child led parents evening)
come learn with us
homework
An annual written report.
      
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5. Reporting on your Child’s Progress
We are continually reviewing our practise to ensure parents are involved in their child’s progress.
We would like your views on reducing the written report and introducing a 3rd parent teacher consultation.
Please can you indicate on the flip chart your views Yes (in favour) No ( remain as we are). Please add any additional comments via post-its
Example of the report, please tally
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6. Rules and Routines # Grow! Create! Shine!
Positive Behaviour – Mystery Hero, Mr Potato Head.
Growth Mindset – Believing that we can ‘grow our brains’
Gym – Mondays and Thursdays
Fitness Friday
Positive behaviour – ‘Clip up’ chart. Mystery hero. House points, stickers.
Growth Mindset – can’t do it yet. Our feedback on effort, rather than getting it right first time. Learning pit.
Fitness Friday – work in houses,
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7. Starting to write # Grow! Create! Shine! Black pen drawings
Develops fine motor
Planning of the story
Adding detail
Sequencing
Key phrases
Repetitive sentences
My turn, your turn
Key phrases, e.g. I am in bed, I am in my house…
Hold a sentence
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8. Handwriting # Grow! Create! Shine! Handwriting is about:
Pencil control
Hand eye coordination
Fine motor/ muscle control
Correct letter formation
putting words on paper
Once they know all their sounds… move on to correct letter formation.
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9. Reading is the key to unlock the curriculum!
This (symbol) letter looks like this, the speech sound that matches is….
Letters together make words and words together make sentences, sentences make stories !
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10. Phonics # Grow! Create! Shine!
Spoken words are formed by articulating speech sounds – English has 44
Hear – pure sounds ( no schwaa ma/ si)
Read- assisted to independent blending
Read - decoding
Write it – segmenting/ encoding
Jolly phonics, after a block of 6 sounds, you will get a booklet home, please practice with your child.
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11. Phoneme v grapheme # Grow! Create! Shine!
Phoneme – spoken language (e.g. the sound ‘A’) Grapheme – written language (e.g. acorn, rain, say, save) In English children have over 150 graphemes (letter groups) to learn. Therefore, sounds covered in P1, will be covered again in P2, P3, and so on.
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12. Reading Reading workshops on Mondays and Wednesdays
Decoding the words – different strategies
Comprehension
Questioning – asking and answering
Character, setting, plot
Prediction
Ways to help your child:
Mixed approach- shared, use the library book or any book to read to your child !!
Reading games
Word walls
Reading diary ~ please sign & comment
Decoding the words – different strategies, e.g. getting clue from picture, chunking the word, skip it.
Questioning – asking and answering
Prediction – e.g. half a book

13. Numeracy and Maths # Grow! Create! Shine! Shape, position, movement
Number counts
Forward FWNS
Backward BWNS
Domino patterns
Bunny ears
Mental maths - strategies
Shape, position, movement
Information handling / graphs
Pattern / sequences
Measure and estimation
Time
Mental Maths – same sums over and over, so they can increase speed
Hundred Square – some examples of games, e.g. target
Number sequences – can be counting in 1s, but also counting in 2s, 10s, etc, counting backwards, counting from any number, in tens off the decade.
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14. Co-operative Learning
Talking partners – shoulder partners/face partners
Learning social skills, back to basics, e.g. turn taking, eye contact with speaker, how to show you are listening
T-charts
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15. Homework # Grow! Create! Shine! Homework should be fun
Set on Tuesday, returned on Monday
Should take mins a day
Spelling wall
Maths wall
At this stage, children should be reading as often as possible, preferably every day
Please sign reading diaries
Start after October
Grids to give ideas.
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16. Parental Involvement # Grow! Create! Shine! Class assembly.
Come Learn.
Issues/concerns – please come to me.
Dates to come in September newsletter
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17. Internet Safety Workshop
Internet safety workshop is being held in the gym hall at 6pm, this is for all parents ( P1-P7)
Thanks for coming!
Don’t forget to collect
your child’s forms!
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