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Welcome to Year 1

Welcome to Year 1. Teachers Y1 Miss Farrah Y1 Mrs Buss and Mrs Graves Y2 Mrs Yardley/Mrs Coulter Y2 Miss Stockton (Phase Leader) Teaching Assistants Mrs Pearson Mrs Heard Mrs Smith Mrs King. New Class.

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Welcome to Year 1

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  1. Welcome to Year 1 Teachers Y1 Miss Farrah Y1 Mrs Buss and Mrs Graves Y2 Mrs Yardley/Mrs Coulter Y2 Miss Stockton (Phase Leader) Teaching Assistants Mrs Pearson Mrs Heard Mrs Smith Mrs King

  2. New Class • Your child has enjoyed spending time in their new classroom with their new teacher today. • They will take home a slip of paper with their new teacher’s name on at home time today. • Your child has chosen 3 friends that they would like to be with – they are with at least 1 of those friends in their new class.

  3. The Classroms • Both Miss Farrah’s and Mrs Buss/Mrs Graves classrooms will have the partitioning wall open • This will make 1 large classroom where children will work in groups with their teacher, and will also have access to the outdoor area and other activities throughout the day • You can bring your child in on that first day to help them find peg/shoe box and have a look at the Y1 area

  4. Typical school day 8:40 – 8:50 Registration 9.00 – 9.20 Phonics 9:20 – 9.30 Introduce morning activities 9.30 – 10.30 English or Maths activity 10:30 – 10:45 Fruit time 10:45 – 11 Play time 11 – 11.50 English or Maths activity 11.50 – 12.55 Lunch 1 – 1.15 Registration and Toothbrushing 1.15 – 1.30 Handwriting 1:30 – 2:10 Topic, Music, Computing or PE 2:10-2.25 Playtime 2.25-3.00 Topic, Music, Computing or PE 3.00-3.10 Story 3.15 Hometime

  5. Weekly Events • Reading books and journals in when finished and signed – this does not need to wait until Friday. • Spelling test – every Friday • PE – Every Thursday afternoon- please label clothing and provide tape for earrings • Please bring water bottles • Gold Book

  6. Important Information • Year 1 and Year 2 children are in Key Stage 1 • School Lunches are free throughout Key Stage 1 • Your child will be given a free piece of fruit each day. • Please make sure your child has a pair of indoor shoes to change into- these will need a name in.

  7. Important dates Autumn Term: Wednesday 4th September – Back to School Friday 6th September – ‘Wow Day’ – children to come to school wearing bright clothes/circus outfit to introduce our ‘Circus’ topic Tuesday 17th September – Meet new teacher and Stay and Read session Monday 14th October – Parents Evening Tuesday 15th October – Parents Evening Friday 25th October – break up for half term

  8. Expectations in Reading • Reads accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words • Reads common exception words eg: and but it • Reads aloud accurately books that are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge • Develops pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by: • 1. listening to and discussing a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently; • 2. becoming very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales. • Understands both the books they can already read accurately and fluently and those they listen to by: • 1. checking that the text makes sense to them as they read; • 2. as they read, correcting inaccurate reading; • 3. discussing the significance of the title and events; and • 4. predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.

  9. Expectations in Writing • Begins to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place • Names the letters in the alphabet and know the order. • Introduces capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences. Able to make phonically-plausible attempts to spell words that have not yet been learnt and can form individual letters correctly. • Able to form letters correctly and confidently. • To begin to use some of the distinctive features of standard English in their writing.

  10. Expectations in Maths • Counts to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or one, or from any given number • Counts, reads and writes numbers to 100 in numerals; counts in multiples of twos, fives and tens • Given a number, identifies one more and one less • Represents and uses number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20 • Recognises, finds and names a half as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • Tells the time to the hour and half past the hour and draws the hands on a clock face to show these times

  11. What happens if you have any questions/worries throughout the year? • A teacher will always be at the door in the morning and all teachers will be there at the end of the day or, if you would like a 1-1 meeting you can make appointments in the office • If the class teacher is unavailable, please see the Phase Leader (me)

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