Taking Pride and Aiming High

1. Welcome to year 1 • Daily routine/curriculum overview • End of year expectations • How to support your child at home • Communication • Equipment • Attendance • Lunches • Productions/trips/ Phonic assessment • Seesaw Taking Pride and Aiming High

2. The year 1 team SycamoreMaple Mrs Lodge Mrs Lynes Mrs Stewart Mrs Corrigan Miss Lucas Year_1.sycamore@office.pines.bracknell-forest.sch.uk Year_1.maple@office.pines.bracknell-forest.sch.uk Taking Pride and Aiming High

4. Curriculum Overview

5. Our daily routines Taking Pride and Aiming High

6. Our expectations of the children

7. End of Year Expectations • Booklet with new expectations • Common exception words- read and write them • Phonic sounds- phonic test Taking Pride and Aiming High`

8. How to support at home Reading • Reading daily- questioning • Practising common exception words- flash/ snap/ websites • Practising phonic sounds-flash cards/ sand / snap/ websites • library • http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3.html • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-eTO8L3t40 • www.phonicsplay.co.uk Taking Pride and Aiming High`

9. How to support at home • Writing • Fine motor skills • Letter formation – cursive • Encourage writing- • -writing a diary • -shopping list • - cards • - special book Taking Pride and Aiming High`

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11. How to support at home • Maths • Counting forwards and backwards to 100 • Count and write number to 100 • Forming numbers correctly • Identifying one more and one less up to 100 Taking Pride and Aiming High`

12. How to support at home MAKE IT FUN!!!!!!!! Taking Pride and Aiming High`

13. Home Learning • Folders • Spelling once a week • Maths once a week • Topic termly • Daily reading/alien words – books changed 3 times a week Taking Pride and Aiming High`

14. Communication • Weekly bulletin- emailed • Monthly newsletter- emailed • Website • Seesaw • Twitter- https://twitter.com/ • Letter • Speak to teacher • Pupil diary Taking Pride and Aiming High`

15. Next week you will receive a letter inviting you to join Seesaw. • This is an app which is an online learning journal for your child. • Teachers will be posting photos, videos and work your child has created. • Family members can like and comment on items, allowing you to engage with your child’s learning. • It will give you a portal into your child’s life at school. • This is another excellent way we are communicating with families about the learning and progress your child is making, so we ask that everyone signs up to this.

17. Equipment • P.E kit- white or green T-shirt/ black shorts/ jogging bottoms/ jumpers/ plimsolls/ trainers • Take it home weekly • Jo Howorth • Pencil/glue/whiteboard pen • Water bottle- water/ juice • EVERYTHING labelled Taking Pride and Aiming High`

18. ATTENDANCE • The key to academic success is EXCELLENT ATTENDANCE. • In order for your child to be successful at school we expect them to be here EVERY DAY unless they are ill. • As a school we have HIGH EXPECTATIONS of your child. • To maximise learning, attendance should be more than 96%. • HOLIDAYS are not to be taken during term time. • A RECORD of any holidays taken will be kept in your child’s file. • Any doctor, hospital APPOINTMENTS should be made for after school. Taking Pride and Aiming High

19. Punctuality is vital. Pupils are expected to arrive in school by 8.45 so lessons can start promptly and the site can be secured. Please do not line up with your child, as other parents cannot see their children. It also prevents children from seeing their teacher. We ask that all parents step back and allow their child to line up independently, as they do for break and lunch. If they arrive after this and the gates are shut, they need to enter through the office. Pupils are marked as late if they arrive after 9:00am when the register closes. PUNCTUALITY

20. PACKED LUNCHES • Packed lunches should include a healthy sandwich, yoghurt, fruit, a bag of crisps, a biscuit etc. • We do not allow sweets, chocolate or products containing nuts. Fizzy drinks are not allowed. • We are a NUT FREE school due to children who have severe allergies. This includes peanut butter, Nutella etc.

21. Dates • KS1 Nativity: • Wednesday 13th December am • Phonic Screening test: • Week becoming – Monday 11th June Taking Pride and Aiming High`

22. Online safety New technologies have become integral to the lives of children and young people in today’s society, both within schools and in their lives outside school and we want to keep our children safe. We will does this by: • It is woven into our curriculum and we have an extra focus on E-Safety at the time of national E-Safety week in February. • Every member of staff, parent and child will be asked to sign an Acceptable Use Policy. This is to ensure: • That young people will be responsible users and stay safe while using the internet and other communications technologies for educational, personal and recreational use. • That school ICT systems and users are protected from accidental or deliberate misuse that could put the security of the systems and users at risk. • That parents and carers are aware of the importance of e-safety and are involved in the education and guidance of young people with regard to their on-line behaviour. • We will be holding an e-safety information session this year. - If you have any questions on how to keep your child safe see your class teacher. Taking Pride and Aiming High

23. Parent readers Taking Pride and Aiming High`