Back to school night

1. Back to school night EcoleYenzi

2. Overview • Routines, timetable • Learning and teaching during numeracy • Learning and teaching during literacy • Learning through the IPC • Assessment and Learning records

3. Routines / Timetable • Monday – Spelling and sentence • Wednesday – Reading book/ Library • Friday – Numeracy Home learning

5. Home learning • Tips for good homework habits • Do find a quiet place at home to use as a homework area. It needs a flat surface, a good light source and the right equipment eg pens, pencils, ruler, scissors, glue. • Do be aware of modern teaching methods, eg in long division. • Do plan a homework timetable and agree on when your child will do their homework. • Do allow your child to have something nutritional to eat before starting on homework. • Do discuss any homework tasks with your child and how it connects with what they are studying at school. • Do turn off the TV - but you could have music on if they find it helpful. • Don't give your child the answer in order to get a task finished. Instead, explain how to look up information or find a word in a dictionary. • Don't teach your child methods you used at school. It could confuse them. • Don't let homework become a chore. Keep it fun and make it a special time that you both look forward to.

6. Numeracy • Considerable importance is attached to the children achieving and understanding mathematical processes, concepts and skills. • There is a strong emphasis on the development of mental arithmetic and giving opportunities for pupils to use and apply mathematics in real life situations. • Maths is taught through a daily Numeracy lesson which follows the principles of the Primary Numeracy Framework. Tips for helping your child to enjoy maths: • Point out the different shapes to be found around your home. • Take your child shopping and talk about the quantities of anything you buy. • Let your child handle money and work out how much things cost. • Look together for numbers on street signs and car registration plates. • Please refer to the parent handout for a detailed guide

7. Numeracy Framework grid Block A Counting, partitioning and calculating Using and applying mathematics Counting and understanding number Calculating Using and applying mathematics Block B Securing number facts, understanding shape Knowing and using number facts Understanding shape Block C Handling data and measures Using and applying mathematics Measuring Handling data Using and applying mathematics Block D Calculating, measuring and understanding shape Calculating Measuring Understanding shape Block E Securing number facts, relationships and calculating Using and applying mathematics Counting and understanding number Knowing and using number facts Calculating

9. How Do We Teach Writing At School?

10. How Do We Teach Writing At School?

11. Literacy Reading Writing Tips for helping your child to enjoy books: • Encourage your child to pretend to 'read' a book before he or she can read words. • Visit the library as often as possible - take out CDs and DVDs as well as books. • Schedule a regular time for reading - perhaps when you get home from school or just before bed. • Buy dual-language books if English isn’t your family’s first language - you can talk about books and stories, and develop a love for them, in any language. • Look for books on topics that you know your child is interested in - maybe dragons, insects, cookery or a certain sport. • Make sure that children’s books are easily accessible in different rooms around your house. Tips for helping you child enjoy writing • Encourage your child to have a personal journal • Focus on writing smaller pieces to start with • Allow them to explore the range of writing available • Monitor their writing on occasions • Provide them with feedback and suggestions on how to improve their writing • Suggest to your child that they should adapt and utilise ideas and words that they have come across during their reading sessions in their writing • Please refer to the parent handout for a detailed guide

12. IPC Overview 10 things Parents should know about the IPC • The International Primary Curriculum is a curriculum that is being used in over 1000 schools in 65 countries around the world. It was launched in 2000 having taken three years to create by a group of leading experts in children’s learning from around the world. • The goal of the IPC is for children to focus on a combination of academic, personal and international learning. We want children to enjoy their learning; develop enquiring minds, develop the personal qualities they need to be good citizens of the world, and develop a sense of their own nationality and culture, at the same time developing a profound respect for the nationalities and cultures of others. Most of all, we want children to develop all the skills they will need in order to confidently face the world of tomorrow. • Children learn through a series of IPC units of work. Each unit of work has a theme that today’s children find interesting and relevant. Examples of these themes includes Treasure, Rainforest, Mission to Mars and Beyond and Fit for Life. Each unit of work lasts on average between four and eight weeks and children learn many of their subjects through this one common theme so that their learning has meaning to them. • Linking subjects means that children can make lots of connections with their learning. We now know that the more connections that the brain can make, the better a child can learn. • The development of skills is a very big part of the IPC and learning activities have been designed so that children can develop these skills. This development of skills even applies to the personal learning goals which emphasise adaptability, resilience, thoughtfulness, cooperation and respect and which, as a result of progressive skill development, help children to become able and inspired learners. • The IPC is not just topic learning. Although the learning is based around a theme, the learning that the children do within that theme has very distinct outcomes to ensure that children are learning exactly what they need to learn. • The IPC focuses children’s learning on a combination of knowledge, skills and understanding. No one can properly predict the nature of work and life opportunities that will be available for today’s primary age children by the time they are adults. Many of the jobs they will have don’t yet exist; especially in the fields of ICT, technology and science. So the IPC focuses on a skills-based approach, developing adaptable and resilient globally-minded learners, prepared for the fast-changing world that they’ll be living and working in. • The IPC has been designed for children of all abilities and all learning styles, and encourages learning in groups as well as individual learning. • In order that parents know what their child is learning, they are sent a letter at the beginning of each IPC unit which outlines what learning will be covered and how parents can help continue that learning at home if they choose. • The continued development of the IPC today ensures that children are learning a current and highly relevant curriculum based on the very latest research into the brain and children’s learning.

13. Assessments and learning records Numeracy IPC Literacy • Goal online assessments • Abacus end of term assessments • Weekly mental maths • Abacus i-planner online learning records • Systematic planned interval teacher assessments • Self / peer assessments • Writing samples • Reading records • Weekly Spelling records • Comprehension assessments • NFER reading age • Probe Assessments