1. Unicorns and Dinosaurs
Welcome
to Year 1:
Unicorns and Dinosaurs

2. Year 1 Team
Miss Smith – Class Teacher - Unicorns
Mr Clarke – Class Teacher – Dinosaurs
Mrs Turner, Mrs King – Learning Support Practioners
Mrs Todhunter – Intervention support

3. Year 1 Expectations as a Learner
Self Managers
Ask for help (if the time is appropriate). Choose and use equipment needed for a set task. Have a go even when something is difficult. Set a simple target or goal. Tell when someone is feeling sad. Stop and think before acting.
Effective Participators
Recognise when they need to talk to someone about a concern. Listen to the point of view of others in a dispute. Listen carefully to instructions and follow them.
Resourceful Thinkers
Think of own ideas once given a starting point. Play, observe and experiment to find things out. Have a go at something new. Suggest ways to solve problem
Reflective Learners
Know and understand what they do well. Tell others why they enjoy a task. Tell someone what they have learnt. Pick the best time to talk to someone. Try something different if previous action has not worked.
Independent Enquirers
Ask sensible questions about learning and tasks. Offer an opinion about an issue and explain thinking. Show curiosity about new things. Use ‘how’ and ‘why’ when trying to find things out. Give a simple opinion and explain why.
Team Workers
 Work in a group and take turns. Engage in collaborative tasks. Prepared to listen to the ideas of others without interrupting them. Confident to share ideas with others.

4. Learning Challenge Curriculum
Topic based learning:
· Making comparisons between now and when parents and grandparents were young.
· Putting events in chronological order.
· Using words like ‘old’, ‘new’ and ‘a long time ago’.
Pencil skills and drawing
Are computer games more fun than Grandma and Grandpa’s toys?
· Using different programs on the computer
· Choosing different tools to create a picture.
Gymnastics —basic skills—rolls and jumps
Dance—Streamers

5. English in Year 1
Our spellings will be linked to our Phonics phase and will go home at the beginning of each term. We also encourage children to practise the Year 1 spellings.
We have high standards of presentation; children should be writing on the line and forming their letters correctly. We will start handwriting this half term as a foundation for joining after Christmas.
Our text for this half term will be ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and we try to link most of our writing to this theme to give children a purpose for writing.

6. End of Year expectations
Reading:
Decoding/Phonics
Read and spell phonically decidable two and three syllable words Read automatically all words in the 100 high frequency word list.
Patterns and Rhymes
Identify which words appear again and again.
Comprehension and Understanding
Relate reading to own experiences. Re-reads if reading does not make sense. Re-tell with considerable accuracy. Discuss significance of title & events.
Prediction, inference and deduction
Make predictions on basis of what has been read. Make inferences on basis of what is being said & done.
Intonation and Expression
Reads with pace & expression, i.e. pause at full stop; raise voice for question.
Research
Knows difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.

7. End of Year expectations
Writing:
Sentence & text structure
Write clearly demarcated sentences. Use ‘and’ to join ideas. Use conjunctions to join sentences (e.g. so, but). Use standard forms of verbs, e.g. go/went.
Punctuation
Evidence of: Capital letters. Full stops. Question marks. Exclamation marks. Capital letters for names & personal pronoun ‘I’.
Paragraphing
Clearly sequenced sentences [as introduction to paragraphs].
Handwriting
Correct formation of lower case – finishing in right place. Correct formation of capital letters. Correct formation of digits.

8. End of Year expectations
Maths:
Counting & ordering
Count to & across 100, forwards & backwards from any number.
Numbers & more/less
Read & write numbers to 20 in digits & words Read & write numbers to 100 in digits. Say 1 more/1 less to 100
Tables & multiples
Count in multiples of 1, 2, 5 & 10.
Bonds & Facts
Know bonds to 10 by heart. Use bonds & subtraction facts to 20.
Calculations +/-
Add & subtract: 1 digit & 2 digit numbers to 20, including zero. Add any three 1-digit numbers with a total up to 20.
Calculations x/÷
Solve simple multiplication & division with apparatus & arrays.
Fractions & percentages
Recognise half and quarter of object, shape or quantity.
Time
Sequence events in order. Use language of day, week, month and year. Tell time to hour & half past.

9. Homework
We set 2 books on Bug Club at an appropriate level for each child. These should be read throughout the week as new books will be set on a weekly basis.
My Maths is set on a each week to be completed for the following Monday.
Learning Logs will be sent home with a new task fortnightly.

10. Physical Education
Monday and Tuesday – remember to wear your P.E. Kits on these days. Please make sure your child has trainers not plimsolls or astroturf shoes.

11. Healthy Minds
Children should bring a water bottle to school which they will have access to throughout the day.
A morning snack of fruit is provided at play time.
Packed lunches should be healthy.

12. Our Class rules Listen carefully. Put your hand up to ask a question.
Use classroom voices.
Use kind words, kind hands and kind feet.
Smile everyday.

13. Behaviour and Discipline
We primarily use positive reinforcement in Year 1. As a whole class, children can earn marbles in the jar to gain a class reward. Dojo points and stickers are awarded to individuals for positive behaviour.
On a Monday we award a Star of the week and Work of the week which is recognised in assembly and with a certificate.
Green card – 1st warning;
Yellow card – 2nd warning and miss 5 minutes of play;
Red card – miss play
Phase leader – Mrs Cavanagh

14. We look forward to getting to know you all!
Thank You
We look forward to getting to know you all!