1. Chestnut Class Ightham Primary School

2. Welcome Introductions Mrs Johnson – Class Teacher
Mrs Burness – Teaching Assistant
Mrs Pollen – Management time and
PPA cover (Thursdays)

3. HOME-SCHOOL CONTACT BOOK
One of the important links between home and school
Homework and letters
Signed daily by staff
Please read and complete information in the front
Concerns / complaints: The complaints procedure is outlined in the contact book. If you have any concerns or complaints, your first port of call should be the class teacher.

4. Medicines
All medicines need to be taken to the school office by an adult.
Medication form to be completed
Inhalers/epi-pens (2) to be in school at all times
Allergies – medication (if needed) to be provided to the office.
Children must not bring cough sweets into school.

5. CURRICULUM New Curriculum Topics
London’s Burning (The Great Fire of London)
Wonderful Ightham
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!

6. TIMETABLE The termly timetable will be displayed in the classroom
Visual daily timetable PE
Term 1 Tuesday and Wednesday
Terms 5 and 6 – swimming

8. UNIFORMS AND P.E. KIT Please label EVERYTHING!
Smart uniform is required everyday
Wellingtons / waterproof coat/trousers
Long hair should be tied up
During term time, P.E. kit should be in school everyday (spare socks are needed to replace tights)
No nail polish
If applicable – earrings, one set of plain studs
(earrings must be removed for all PE lessons).

9. SNACKS Children are provided with fruit in the morning
Please let me know if there are certain fruits your child doesn’t eat
Milk

10. THE SCHOOL DAY Staff are on duty from 8:35am - Bell rings at 8:45am
Children line up in register order
School day begins at 8:50am
Play time at am
Lunch at noon
School day ends at 3.20pm

11. STATIONERY
All stationery is provided by the school

12. MARKING Work will be marked against the specific Learning Objective
Pink for positive comments
Green for next steps
Spelling
VF – verbal feedback

13. BEL0W AGE-RELATED EXPECTATIONS
Assessment
Throughout the year, formative assessments are carried out and each child’s progress is assessed against age-related expectations. Your child will therefore be in one of four broad bands for Reading, Writing and Maths;
Below Age- Related Expectations
Emerging
Expected
Exceeding
BEL0W AGE-RELATED EXPECTATIONS
EMERGING
EXPECTED
EXCEEDING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The expectation is that your child would be in the ‘Emerging’ band at the start of the school year. This is because the curriculum for that year would not yet have been taught to your child. By the end of the school year the expectation would be that your child would be in the ‘Expected’ band. ‘Expected’ means that your child is working at the expected level for a child of that age.

14. ASSESSMENT
Four pupil progress meetings will take place during the year, during which your child’s levels are moderated and progress is discussed with Mr Sherhod/Miss Avery.
Parent Consultations will take place in Terms 1 and 4.
Key Stage One SATs will take place over two weeks –
beginning 6th May and 13th May 2019.
End of Year Reports to go home in July.

15. BEHAVIOUR Code of conduct Superhero class rules Behaviour policy
Individual Stars
‘My Time’ / marbles
Chance cards

16. READING
Reading books
Your child is responsible for changing his / her book on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Please use your child’s reading diary to note down which page your child has read to and any difficulties/strengths. Your child’s diary will be stamped when he/she has read to an adult.
Weekly class Library visits.

17. HOMEWORK
Homework will be on a sticker or clipped into Home-School Contact book.
Reading
10 minutes daily reading with an adult
Every day
n/a
Spellings
5 minutes daily
Monday
Counting in 2’s,3’s,5,s and 10’s
Maths and/or English
20 minutes total
Friday
Wednesday

18. ABSENCE Please notify the school by telephone before 8.50am
If your child has been sick or had diarrhoea, they must be kept home for 48 hours after the last occurrence.
If your child arrives after the register has been taken, please ensure you sign them in, in the school office.

19. Drop in
Wednesday 3.25pm – 3.40pm A chance for your child to share his / her work with you.

20. PARENT VOLUNTEERS
If you would like to be a parent volunteer please attend the meeting on Monday 17th September, at 9.00am in the library. We also
welcome grandparents to volunteer.

21. Question Time ?