Transcript Meet the Year 1 team.

Meet the Year 1 team
The team
 Phase
Leader – Mrs Bamber
 Wren Class Teacher – Miss Swinburn
 Swallow Class Teacher – Miss Swallow
 Learning Support Assistants – Mrs
Newman and Mrs Gingell
Transition from Reception to Year 1
Year 1 is a transition year between the Early Years Foundation
Stage curriculum and the National Curriculum.
Learning through play is still and important part of the Year 1
curriculum along with the introduction of more formal
learning.
As the year progresses the level of challenge in the play
increases. We do this by setting children weekly challenges
that are linked to part of our learning. This type of learning
plays a key part in helping children become more independent
in their learning.
Expectations and behaviour
Children are expected to be more independent in Year 1,
compared to Reception. Children should be able to come into
the classroom and organise themselves in Year 1, saying
goodbye to their family at the door. They should then put
their belongings in the appropriate place and get ready to
start the day.
This includes Book Bags in the correct boxes, water bottles
and fruit in the trays. Coats and bags should be hung on the
pegs. They will then have a Morning Job to do – e.g. weekly
challenges, reading on the carpet, handwriting practice,
spellings, number formation etc, before the register is taken.
A typical day in year 1
Doors open at 8:35
Children should be completing their morning activity by 8:45
Register is taken at 8:50 and is closed by 9:00
9:00 – 9:20 Phonics
9:20 – 10:20 English followed by explore time
10:20 – 10:40 – Fruit and milk with a story
BREAK
11:00 – 11:55 Maths
LUNCH
1:10 – 1:40 Reading activities
Afternoon: Topic work and Explore time
2:45 – 3:00 Assembly
3:15 HOME TIME
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Consistency across the year group means that as a team we work closely together.
Year 1 National Curriculum
Following this meeting you will receive the Year 1 Age Related
Standards set by The Government.
These are to be achieved by the end of the year. Some children
may still be developing these skills and some will exceed and
move on to the Year 2 expectations by the end of the year.
Children will be given the 100 most frequent words to learn by
the end of the year. (These are in your hand-out).
They will then move on to the top 200. (If you need the 200
please ask your class teacher)
Reading
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In Year 1, the children take home two books from the colour band below the
one they are reading in school. This is because the books they take home
should be able to be read independently by the child. The more challenging
level of books are read in school, either with the teacher or a learning support
assistant. When the child has been reading in school, usually once a week, a
comment will be written in the reading diary. We would appreciate it if you
would write in the reading diary when they read at home too. We recommend
reading as much as you can with your child, as regular reading helps them
make greater progress.
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The children will change their books twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.
They will put the two books back and get two different ones. When your child
moves up a colour band, we will put a label of that colour in their reading
diary.
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Library books – The children have the opportunity to visit the school library
once a week. They choose 1 book to take home to share with someone at
home. The children will choose the book independently. This needs to be
bought back on a Monday.
Holiday books and WOW vouchers
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THANK YOU!
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From all the amazing support we have decided to do WOW
vouchers. If your child does something that makes you say
WOW, we would like you to write a voucher.
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The WOW voucher will then be stuck into their holiday book
– which will transform into their WOW books.
Homework
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Reading – We encourage children to read daily at home. This can be
your child reading to you, sharing books together and you reading to
your child.
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Spellings – Spellings will be based on the phonics they are learning.
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Maths – A short maths activity related to your child’s learning in class.
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Children will also be given a STEP activity – the children will be given
4 options to choose from and they have to pick one to work on with a
family member over the term. Children can choose to do more if they
want to.
Homework will be given out on a Friday and bought in the
following Wednesday.
Phonics
Phonics is taught everyday. The children
are set into phonics groups.
 At the end of the year the children will
partake in a phonics screening check. To
assess their understanding in phonics.
 Mrs Bamber will be running workshops on
phonics during the year to support this.
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Any questions?