1. English Parents Information Evening
Assistant Head and English Subject Leader– Miss Anna Lee
EYFS and KS1 Leader – Miss Lucy Courtney-Diggins

2. Provide guidance to parents on how to support their children at home.
Aims of the Session –
Provide and overview of reading, writing and spelling initiatives and teaching across the whole school – including brief familiarisation with national expectations.
Provide guidance to parents on how to support their children at home.
Provide information on up-coming literacy initiatives and changes.
Question and Answer Session.
To help children identify words with difficult parts. Tips are given to help the children remember these tricky words. These tricky words will be written in the homework diary for the children to take home and practise. Please date and sign when the word has been spelt correctly (p30)

3. New Primary Curriculum 2014.
New Primary Curriculum 2014
To help children identify words with difficult parts. Tips are given to help the children remember these tricky words. These tricky words will be written in the homework diary for the children to take home and practise. Please date and sign when the word has been spelt correctly (p30)

4. Reading and Reading for Pleasure
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.“
Dr Seuss
To help children identify words with difficult parts. Tips are given to help the children remember these tricky words. These tricky words will be written in the homework diary for the children to take home and practise. Please date and sign when the word has been spelt correctly (p30)

5. What do levels look like? Level expectations by year group H/O 1
To help children identify words with difficult parts. Tips are given to help the children remember these tricky words. These tricky words will be written in the homework diary for the children to take home and practise. Please date and sign when the word has been spelt correctly (p30)

6. EYFS and KS1 Phase Leader: Miss Courtney-Diggins
Phonics and Reading in the EYFS and Key Stage 1 at St. Andrew’s (Barnsbury) C. E. Primary School
EYFS and KS1 Phase Leader: Miss Courtney-Diggins

7. The EYFS Development Matters states:
Where does it start?
The EYFS Development Matters states:
When children are ready provide regular systematic synthetic phonics sessions. These should be multisensory in order to capture their interests, sustain motivation and reinforce learning.

8. What do we use at St. Andrew’s to provide regular systematic phonics sessions?

9. Key things to know about how phonics is taught and how to give your child the best start in reading and writing:
Phonics is taught every day for 20 minutes at and then applied through all areas of learning where applicable throughout the day
Letters are taught as the sound that they make – this makes initial reading and writing for children much easier, the names of the letters are told too but not focussed heavily on
Actions are taught for each new sound to support children remembering each sound and differentiating between sounds in a fun way

10. Structure of each phonics lesson:
Recap of sounds previously learnt
-what sound is this?
-what words begin with this sound?
-How do you write this sound? (Formation)
New sound taught (recommended by Letters and Sounds) with action (recommended by Jolly Phonics)
Tricky words and High Frequency words recapped and taught through a quick game
6 differentiated activities set up for the children to do to apply what they have learnt

11. Photographs

12. Activities and Games for parents and carers to take home

13. Useful games and websites:
Programmes available on the London Learning Grid:
Busy things
Espresso
Purple Mash
Useful websites:

14. Phonics Screening Test – Year One What is the phonics screening check?
The phonics screening check is a short, light-touch assessment to confirm whether individual children have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard.
It will identify the children who need extra help so they are given support by their school to improve their reading skills. They will then be able to retake the check so that schools can track children until they are able to decode.  
 Who is it for?
The screening check is for all Year 1 pupils in maintained schools, academies and Free Schools - and children in Year 2 who previously did not meet the standard of the check in Year 1.
H/O Two – Sample phonics screening
To help children identify words with difficult parts. Tips are given to help the children remember these tricky words. These tricky words will be written in the homework diary for the children to take home and practise. Please date and sign when the word has been spelt correctly (p30)

15. Parent Reading and support in KS1 and Foundation Stage
To help children identify words with difficult parts. Tips are given to help the children remember these tricky words. These tricky words will be written in the homework diary for the children to take home and practise. Please date and sign when the word has been spelt correctly (p30)

16. Key Stage 2
Reading
Children encouraged to read for pleasure and to read regularly to an adult at home
Nothing has greater impact on a child’s performance in English than regular reading with adults at home and at school. This should be a combination of both being read to and reading with an adult and discussing the book.
To help children identify words with difficult parts. Tips are given to help the children remember these tricky words. These tricky words will be written in the homework diary for the children to take home and practise. Please date and sign when the word has been spelt correctly (p30)

17. Guided Reading
In Key Stage 1 and KS 2 Guided reading is ‘small-group’ reading instruction designed to provide differentiated teaching that supports students in developing reading proficiency. The small group model allows key stage 2 children to be taught in a way that is intended to be more focused on their specific needs, accelerating their progress.

18. What kinds of questions should I ask?
H/O 3 – TASK and AF Question Stems

19. Expectations
Children should be reading regularly at home, ideally at least 30 minutes a day. They should be heard reading by an adult at home at least three times a week, and notes and comments recorded in their home reading diary record book.
Children should also have a reading book which is brought home daily. This could be a school reading book, a book from home or a library book.

20. All classes visit the local library at least once fortnightly
Additionally –
All classes visit the local library at least once fortnightly
(York class visit weekly)
School Library
Access to the Islington Education Library
Recommended Book List – H/O 4
To help children identify words with difficult parts. Tips are given to help the children remember these tricky words. These tricky words will be written in the homework diary for the children to take home and practise. Please date and sign when the word has been spelt correctly (p30)

21. Writing, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Writing is one of our focus areas as a school.
We aim to –
Offer rich and engaging writing opportunities across the curriculum.
Support children to build their skills in writing by developing their vocabulary, and usage of appropriate grammar and punctuation.
Setting children targets and next steps to build on between sessions.

22. Writing H/O 5 – level descriptors for writing and writing exemplars.

23. Creative Writing
Exciting weekly extended writing session, where engaging writing opportunities are provided and high quality writing is analysed and produced.
Children’s work is thoroughly marked and levelled and given a next step to allow the child to build skills, or address areas of difficulty.
Focused across writing genres, so helps children remain familiar with different text types.

24. SPELLING LOG BOOK and READING RECORD BOOKS
These books are for recording words each week, using the focus sounds from the work in class. Children can select their own, or have words selected by the teacher, to learn each week at home for a weekly spelling test.
Spelling and handwriting sessions occur three times a week in KS2 and daily in KS1

25. Handwriting
A new handwriting policy has been adopted in school using the PENPALs handwriting scheme. It is a semi cursive handwriting programme taught explicitly daily in KS1 and three times a week in KS2.

26. GRAMMAR
End of KS2 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar test ( SPaG) and end of KS1 for 2016 *Weekly grammar sessions *Focus on creatively embedding grammar through daily English teaching. H/O – GRAMMAR POLICY AND PROGRESSION ACT ACTIVITY – SAMPLE QUESTIONS FROM SPaG

27. Any Questions?