1. Welcome to Year 1 Together in God’s love, we care, trust and respect. …
September 2018

2. Meet the team: Teachers: Mr Light, Mrs Ward, Miss Emerson
Cover teachers: Mrs Whittle and
Mrs Miles
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Callaway, Mrs Littler, Mrs Cudd, Mrs Daniels and Mrs Jackson

3. Learning and Visits for the year
Autumn: Holidays around the World, Once Upon a Time,
Titanic, Weather, Seasons, Moving Pictures
Spring: Healthy Heroes, Time Travellers - Castles
Health and growth, Fruit Salad Making
Summer: Out of this World, Plants and animals
Designing a playground
Special Days: Guy Fawkes, Castles dressing up day
First man on the Moon, Wedding
Trips: Portchester castle (Summer term), local area walks (Summer term)

4. How will you know how your child is doing?
Year 1 will be assessed against the National Curriculum objectives. We will be using a tool called ‘Target Tracker’ which will plot your child’s progress throughout the year.

5. Marking
Over the course of the last year we have been trialing a variety of approaches with a particular emphasis on immediate feedback and marking during lessons. This is something we will be developing over this academic year and which we will share with pupils and parents in due course.

6. Communication with Parents
Meet the teacher evening
Parents Forum (date TBC) hosted by Mrs Jones, Mr Taylor and members of SLT.
Mid year report to be sent home February 2019
End of year reports to be sent home July 2019.
Open evenings for children to share their work with parents. Dates TBC.
Parents Evenings in October (Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th October) and February
In these meetings we will share your child’s progress both academically, socially and emotionally –
however should we need to discuss any of these prior to these meetings we will make contact with you.
Appointments
If you have any concerns please do not hesitate to contact us via the school office.
If you require a separate / additional copy of a school report / mid year report – please let the office know and they can arrange it for you.
Pupil Progress
Discussions regarding your child’s progress can be held with the class teacher, at any point in the year at your request. Alternatively the class teacher may contact you regarding your child’s progress.

7. Reading
Each child needs to read their books every night. Once books are finished, or any reading has been completed, please sign the Reading Diary.
Books will be changed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when both books have been read.
In the first half term we will be teaching all the children how to change their own books.
Each child will be heard by the teacher and the TA once a week during guided reading sessions.
It is really important that they sound out correctly any words they don’t know.
We would encourage you to ask as many comprehension questions as possible to ensure your child is understanding what they are reading.
Words in wallets need to be brought in daily and practiced regularly and will be tested as sight words!

8. Phonics In Year 1 we will be teaching Phonics everyday for 20 minutes.
phonicsplay.co.uk is a website we often use in school and can be used at home too. It is a great tool for practising phase 3, 4 and 5 phonics.
At the end of Year 1 the children will be tested by one of the Year 1 teachers using National Assessment criteria to see if they have reached the standard required by all Year 1 children. Your child’s result will be reported to you.

9. Maths Look at website – for vocab and strategies booklet. Mathletics
Count, read and write numbers to and across 100
Count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10
Read and write numbers from 1 to 20 in words
Understand and use +, - and = when adding or subtracting with one and two digits to twenty
Number bonds within 20
Subtraction facts within 20
Recognise one half and one quarter
Explore problems using length, height, mass, capacity and time
Understanding pounds and pence
Sequence events in chronological order
Know days of the week and months of the year
Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour
Recognise and name 2D and 3D shapes
Describe position, direction and movement including whole, half, quarter and three quarter turns
Look at website – for vocab and strategies booklet.
Mathletics

10. Around the world X table passports
From 2020 children will be tested nationally on their times table knowledge (x1-12) at the end of Year 4.
In preparation for this here at St Francis we have introduced a passport system that will help the children to learn their times tables by the end of Year 4 in a fun way.
It will start here in Year 1 with learning their number bonds to 10, 20 and then 100.
Children will have 20 questions to answer each week and will have 6 minutes to complete them. They will move on to the next set of questions when they have answered all of them correctly.
Each time they do this they get a stamp in their passport.
Each Friday they will bring home their questions and you will be able to see which ones they need to practice for the following week.
It will take several weeks for some children to learn each set so don’t panic!
We will practice with the children each week during our Maths time.
We will probably start this after half term.

11. Homework Expectations:
Reading as often as possible. Little and often.
Spellings – new spellings will be stuck in the
reading diary each week with your child’s score
from this week.
Word wallets
Occasional mental mathematics

12. The School Charter: Always try your best
Be caring, kind and helpful to others
Look after everything at school
Show good manners
Stay safe
Tell an adult if you are unhappy
In every class there is a behaviour class board which displays the School Charter.

13. Our Collective Worship
Every day there is an act of collective worship.
Monday – Whole School Assembly
Tuesday – Whole School Singing Assembly
Wednesday – KS1 Assembly
Thursday – Year Group Assembly
Friday – Whole School Assembly (Class)
Prayers are said daily.

14. Attendance: Please let the office know by phone, letter or
on the first day of absence if your child is
going to be absent from school and the reason for
absence.
Please let us know by 9am
Please be aware of the new national restrictions
for leave of absence.

15. School Comms Can register at the school office.
Really useful for keeping in touch particularly for urgent messages such as closure for poor weather etc.
Text alerts

16. Parent Helpers:
We welcome any time you can spare to help in your child’s class or in another class if you prefer.
Activities you may enjoy doing with the children include art, DT, reading…please speak to one of the teachers if you can spare the time.
All adults in school undergo a DBS check before starting to help. To obtain DBS clearance, please complete the Volunteer Application Booklet available from the school office. This is to ensure our rigorous safeguarding policy and practices are maintained.

17. Timetable
Please note that the register is taken at 8:45 promptly, any child arriving after the register is closed is marked as an ‘unauthorised absence’ for that session – session is am or pm.
Outdoor PE: Monday afternoon
Indoor PE: Thursday morning
Library Time: Friday morning

18. We are looking forward to a successful year. Thank you Any Questions?