Meet the Teachers 2019 - 2020 Miss Martins and Miss Hegarty Y1A/Y1B

1. Meet the Teachers 2019 - 2020 Miss Martins and Miss Hegarty Y1A/Y1B

2. Teacher: Miss Martins 1A Teaching Assistant: Miss Ward Teacher: Miss Hegarty 1B Teaching Assistant: Miss Allen ECAR: Mrs Vyas (Reading support)

3. How to get in touch • Speak to your child’s teacher on the Year 1 door at the end of the day. • Pass a message on through the staff member on the door in the morning. • Phone to arrange an appointment via the office. • Email parentinbox@brookburn.manchester.sch.uk • Parents’ evenings

4. We would always ask that, wherever you have a problem or a concern, we as class teachers are your first port of call. We are the staff who work with and know your children better than anyone else and we hope that we would always be able to listen and respond to concerns to remedy any issue. If you do feel that you need to take your concern further, you should speak to the Key Stage 1 Phase Leader – Miss Bergin. Our SENDCo and Deputy Headteachers are always available to offer support, however, discussions at class teacher / phase lead level would always be encouraged before seeking SLT involvement.

6. School doors open from 8.50am.The Year 1 door will be open until 9am in the morning and it will be locked from 3.35pmafter school has finished. From Thursday 12th September, please leave your children at the door and encourage them to be independent in organising their own belongings. We will, of course, be on hand to assist them if they do need any help! If the door is locked, children must register at the school office. A record is kept in the class register of consistently poor punctuality and attendance and parents will be contacted. If your child is experiencing any problems that may be affecting their attendance or punctuality, then please make contact with us so we can offer our support. 

7. We expect the children to always: - Work hard • Be Gentle • Listen • Look after property • Be kind and helpful • Be honest

8. We use a traffic light system in class to monitor behaviour and every week a child will be rewarded in Golden Assembly with a certificate. We also use Class Dojo which lets children earn points for working hard.

9. Some Dates for Your Diary • Individual school photos: 4th October • Parents’ evening: 15th and 17th October • Halloween disco: 24th October

10. Homework will be set on a regular basis for all children in Year 1. This will consist of: Sumdog Times Tables Rockstars Letterjoin Reading (at least 10 mins a day) Spellings We ask for your help in supporting children with this work and ensure that books are returned to school promptly (£5 cost for lost books). Your children will be given log in details for these wesbites and apps which will be stuck into their reading records.

11. Spellings will be sent home on Fridayto be practiced ready forthefollowingFriday. We would like to promote the importance of homework and would appreciate a small note in the reading records to let us know which website or app your child has been working on each week. Reading books can be changed every day. We encourage the children to bring their reading folder in every day as we will record notes from Guided Reading sessions in their Reading Record if they have brought it.

12. Mystery Reader Every Thursday we invite a grown up to come and read to the children. The children will not know who it is each week so please keep it a secret! If you would like to be a mystery reader please come and have a quiet word with Miss Hegarty (for 1B) or Miss Martins (for 1A) and we will sign you up. Mystery Reader starts at 3pm on Thursdays so please come to the main office at 2.55pm and one of our teaching assistants will come and bring you down to the classroom. Feel free to bring one longer book or a couple of shorter of your choice – we love hearing new stories!

13. Staying safe online Social media safety is taught to all year groups at the beginning of the school year. We have school-wide safety features but if anything gets past the filters, children are taught to switch off the screen and tell the teacher immediately. Our digital code: ZIP IT, BLOCK IT, FLAG IT! For more information please see the IT section of our website under the curriculum tab.

14. Autumn Term: Happily Ever After: Traditional tales, castles and materials. Spring Term: Around the World in 60 Days: Continents, climates, animals/habitats and stories from other cultures. Summer Term: I Like to Move It, Move It: Transport, maps, non-fiction texts and plants! Look out for an invite to our special topic events that will take place throughout the year!

15. Guided Reading  Statutory requirements Pupils should be taught to:  apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words  respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes  read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught read common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word read words containing taught GPCs and –s, –es, –ing, –ed, –er and –est endings  read other words of more than one syllable that contain taught GPCs  read words with contractions [for example, I’m, I’ll, we’ll], and understand that the apostrophe represents the omitted letter(s)  read aloud accurately books that are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge and that do not require them to use other strategies to work out words  re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading.

16. Daily Phonics Sentence Types Spelling Pupils should be taught to spell:  words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught  common exception words  the days of the week  name the letters of the alphabet  naming the letters of the alphabet in order  using letter names to distinguish between alternative spellings of the same sound  add prefixes and suffixes  using the spelling rule for adding –s or –es as the plural marker for nouns and the third person singular marker for verbs  using the prefix un– and using –ing, –ed, –er and –est where no change is needed in the spelling of root words [for example, helping, helped, helper, eating, quicker, quickest]  apply simple spelling rules and guidance  write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs and common exception words taught so far.

17. The NC requires Year 1 children to: Handwriting Pupils should be taught to:  sit correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortably and correctly  begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place  form capital letters  form digits 0-9  understand which letters belong to which handwriting ‘families’ (i.e. letters that are formed in similar ways) and to practise these.

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19. Seasonal change will be taught over the course of the school year to allow the children to observe over time! Autumn term: Everyday materials Spring term: Animals including humans Living things and habitats Summer term: Plants

20. Monday: Sports Tuesday: Gymnastics, Games orDance Please can children have a full PE kit in school every day in case we do a sporting activity at a time different from the above. A letter will be sent home to parents when a child does not have their PE kit on 3 consecutive occasions. Girls should have their hair tied back on PE days and jewellery, including watches, should not be worn. Children must have a pair of outdoor shoes or wellies for the den that they can leave in school. PE kits will be sent home at the end of each half term for washing.

21. First names only… Brookburn’s school website: http://brookburn.wordpress.com Recommended websites: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/ www.phonicsplay.co.uk www.ictgames.com Twitter: @MissMartins7 @MissHegarty1

22. Thank you We are so excited for this year and are already loving getting to know all the children. Please feel free to come and introduce yourselves if you haven’t already done so! We are looking forward to an amazing year :D