1. School Website On our school website parents can access a huge amount of information about the school, for example term dates, newsletters, PTFA events, school staff and governors. The website also holds information about what your children are learning in school. Curriculum overviews can be accessed through the Curriculum tab on the menu down the left hand side of the screen. All of our school policies can also be accessed through the school website, these include, Attendance, Bullying and many more. Please refer to the Safeguarding and Child Protection policy.

2. School Comms School comms allows us as a school to keep parents up to date with events taking place in school. Every Friday an email is sent to all parents to remind them about anything that may be happening in school during the following week. Emails may be sent specifically to the parents of children in individual year groups, for example if Year One are going on a trip a reminder will be sent to their parents only. It is therefore very important that the office have a correct and up to date email address for each parent.

3. The Traffic Light System Each classroom will have a traffic light up on the wall, with the green light at the top and the red light at the bottom. Each child’s name will start on the green light. If a child misbehaves they will be given a verbal warning. If this behaviour reoccurs they will be moved down onto the amber light. Further bad behaviour will lead to their name being moved down to the red light. Good behaviour will be praised and will result in a child’s name being moved back up to the above light. If by the end of the day a child has not been moved back up to the green light, they will miss five minutes of Special Time on a Friday afternoon. Children’s names will all start on the green light every morning regardless of which light they were on when they left school on the previous day.

4. Home learning Aims To promote a love for learning outside of school To extend the children’s learning To enable children to engage in a task with their parents To improve their speaking and listening skills To introduce peer assessment

5. Each individual year group will set their own home learning according to their topic Each year group will set their home learning different times so please look carefully at the date it is due to be returned. When the home learning is returned the children are expected to share their work with the class and discuss what they have done and what they have learnt. The class will then provide some feedback about what they thought they did well and what they could do better. The teacher will then provide the children with verbal feedback about their work and award stickers. There are lots of different ways of doing home learning. This enables each child to create a piece of work that is individual to their interests and abilities. We value every piece of work.

6. Mathletics is a web-based learning program that integrates home and school learning via the internet. It is one of the world's most used educational websites. As an online learning resource it is in line with the next generation in learning. Differentiation - One of the core objectives of Mathletics is to provide content of an appropriate level of difficulty for all abilities. Teachers can modify and personalise a curriculum plan meet your childs needs. Assessment for Learning - Teachers receive all data how your child is progressing. This means that they can target their teaching both in class and individual basis to where it is most needed.

7. You can access mathletics via the internet at : www.mathletics.co.uk Each child will have a password at the back of their red reading comment book. www.mathletics.co.uk

8. Each child will have a mathletics achievement page in their Big Books so that they can be proud of their achievements! Mathletics also provides its own reward system in the form of credits. The more points they earn the more credits they can spend in the mathletics shop for their avatar. Every week the teacher will be keeping a record of who is accessing Mathletics at home. The child will be rewarded in school if they have been using mathletics at home. This will hopefully encourage the children to use the programme.