Transcript Welcome to Lion Class

Welcome to Lion Class!
Staffing
 Teacher – Mrs Malins (Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) and Mrs
Dennis (Tuesday).
 Teaching Assistants – Mrs Jennings
(Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday)
Mrs Crome and Mrs Parfitt.
Classroom Organisation
 Children will work in mixed ability groups
during most learning sessions.
 For Maths and group reading sessions
children will be grouped according to ability
or need (initially on end of Y2 data).
 Children are encouraged to be independent
in their learning and to use support
materials available in the classroom.
My Expectations
 High expectations for behaviour.
 High expectations for presentation.
 High expectations for achievement.
Rewards
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House points
Reward Time
Lion of the Week
Deputy Head Teachers Award (behaviour)
Head Teachers Award (work)
Handwriting
 Children will continue to learn the skills of
cursive joined script.
 When they have established an fluent,
joined and legible style they will be given a
pen licence and pen to write with.
 Children should be aiming for their best
presentation in all of their work.
Reading
 Children are heard during group reading
sessions weekly.
 In addition they may be heard read
individually by an adult in school.
 Please support us by hearing your child read
at home!
 We have a class award system for children
reading at home.
Maths
 Children will work through the National
Numeracy Strategy objectives.
 It would really help if you could encourage
the children to learn their times tables at
home.
 We will continue with tables tests from
where children got to in Y2.
Useful information!
 Our PE session will be on Monday afternoon
with swimming on Wednesday afternoon
(please ensure children have PE kit in school
at all times).
Useful information!
 Home learning tasks will be set on a Friday
for completion by the following Wednesday
(starting this week).
 The children will be set one piece of ‘topic’
related learning for each term (i.e. 6 over
the year). The first piece should already
have come home.
Communication
 Contact Book
 Catch us on the playground
 Make an appointment through the office
Parent helpers
If any parents feel they are able to offer
time to help in school, all offers would be
gratefully received! You may have strengths
or interests in particular subjects or may
be willing to help on a more general basis.
Useful websites for parents
 http://www.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
 http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/
 http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
 http://www.ictgames.com/
 http://www.multiplication.com/games
www.gridclub.com
Username: rya7571
Password: me195ls
Key dates
 School Council elections w/c 16th
September 2013
 Harvest Festival – 4th October 2013
 End of Term 1 – 25th October 2013
Some information is available on our class page
on the school website. I will try to keep it
up to date with homework tasks and
information about what we’ve been doing in
class.
Any questions?