Welcome to Year 1 Tonights meeting is intended

Welcome to Year 1 Tonight’s meeting is intended to give you are overview of your child’s week in school, our learning, timetable, routines and other things which are important to your child’s learning.

Partnership This year is a partnership. Your child, you and me. Your child will need to do their bit • a positive can do attitude; • always giving 100%; • pushing themselves and taking on a challenge; • asking for help, • complete homework • actively look at how they can improve in things, especially in things they know they struggle with.

Planning for our Curriculum was linked to our School Aim –‘Help our teachers to light the spark for a love of learning and of life. ’ We use the acronym SPARK to remind us about how we learn. We think of the brain as a muscle and intelligence as something that grows with exercise, we ask our children to have ‘lively’ brains not ‘lazy’ brains. We want our children to lead and take responsibility for their own Learning Journey. Children need to recognise that no-one can make that journey for them. For children to become active learners they cannot just be trained; put simply its about the right learning attitude- it is having the WILL to pursue the SKILL. Learning is ‘how we call a skill to mind and make use of it’. Learning is when ‘we activate our learning capacity’.

Spirituality is learning through the senses and your spirit. YOU feel a sense of awe and wonder (WOW), feeling a sense of the way you connect to the wide universe. Practical or ‘hands on’ learning- helps YOU to learn by ‘doing’ and ‘talking, so you build your understanding through experiences and remember them. Asking Questions is a way of learning. – It is good to ask ‘why, what, when and how’; ‘What do I want to know about? ’, ‘How will I use this learning in my life? ’ Use YOUR curiosity and interests and think for YOURSELF.

Resilience means that YOU don’t give up – to FAIL is a ‘First Attempt in Learning’. You are learning all the time and you won’t always get it right first time. Learn to enjoy a challenge, stretch your brain and give it a good work-out! Are you leading your own learning? Knowledge is everything YOU have learned. ‘What do YOU know that YOU did not know at the start of the lesson? ’ How are YOU going to use your knowledge? Can YOU talk about what you know and how you use it to learn more. We are all life-long learners.

Study work This term we will be reading the “Naughty Bus” and our learning will be based around London. .

Timetable: There will be some flexibility to the timetable to allow for other activities which take place in school but as a general guide. . 08: 45 – 09: 00 – 09: 25 – 09: 45 – 10: 30 – 10: 45 – 11: 00 – 11: 45 – 12: 00 – 1: 20 – 2: 30 – 2: 45 – 3: 00 3: 15 Monday Register Tuesday Register Wednesday Register Thursday Register Friday Register Phonics Phonics A look at homework Book Club English English Worship Worship Break Break Maths Outdoor Maths Story Lunch Lunch Register/Circle Time/Handwriting Topic RE/PE – Geography/ Music Register/Circle Time/Handwriting Break Finishing off/ jobs/ tidy Mystery Reader Finishing off/ jobs/ tidy Story/ Home time Topic

General Routines Ø 8. 45 doors open and children registered Ø 8. 55 doors locked Ø Phonics Ø Book Club Ø English and Numeracy Ø Worship Ø Afternoons: study work, PE, RE, Music Ø Story time

Start of the day As children come into school they are expected to settle quickly. In Y 1 we do the register, take snack money, order our lunches by 9 am and get ready for our mornings work. Ready for book club!

Book club and reading experiences Book club During this time your child will participate in reading related activities. These include: ØParticipating in a guided group read with an adult – with a specific reading focus. ØHandwriting ØComprehension

Reading at home Please encourage your child to read regularly at home. We want the children to have an enjoyment of reading. Please encourage them to talk about what they are reading and what you are reading too. Please record in the reading diary when you have read with your child. Handy tips Before reading, ask your child to have a quick glance at the story, looking at characters, pictures, settings and predicting what is happening in the story. Discuss any tricky or unusual words or new experiences (what knowledge does your child bring to this story? ). Your child is in charge of the reading and should hold the book, letting them use their finger to point to words. Ask lots of questions and let them ask you questions about the story at the end of the reading. Try not to correct your child when they have made an error, ask at the end of the sentence “does that make sense? ”

PE Sportscape provide PE for year 1 on a Wednesday afternoon. Your child needs their PE kit in school Monday to Friday. Please ensure long hair is tied back on PE days and earrings/jewellery are removed- this applies for clubs too.

School Meal times Hot dinners and sandwiches are available at lunch time. Children eat their lunch in the school hall.

Homework School Daily Recommendations Reception Year 1 and 2 Year 3 and 4 Year 5 and 6 ☺ 10 minutes reading 15 minutes reading 10 minutes homework-see below 15 minutes homework-see below 20 minutes homework-see below 30 minutes homework-see below Weekly homework will include: Subject Task Reading Daily readingshared or independent. English Skills weekly activity from CGP year book Spelling Weekly list to learn and follow up work in CGP book Tested in school Maths Online My. Maths/Khan Academy tasks – set by age expectation Check Recorded in reading diary by EY/KS 1 parent & KS 2 parent/child. Teacher introduces and reinforces. Peer checking in Book club. KS 1 KS 2 class test. Teacher /OA/ peer marked. On line mark and recorded for child- staff check. Aims At Wybunbury Delves School, homework should: ☺ engage parents in children’s learning ☺ basic skills and extend the curriculum; ☺ be relevant to learning in school; ☺ support build independence, confidence and develop the child’s self-discipline needed to prepare them for secondary school;

Ø Visitors and Visits Over the year we aim to undertake visits or have visitors to enhance our learning. This does incur a cost and we do try keep this to a minimum but rising fuel costs are impacting on the cost of visits. Ø Church and worship At harvest, Christmas and Easter the children participate in a church worship. These are an act of worship and not a performance.

Behaviour School favours positive rewards and these can come in many forms ØHouse points ØStar of the day ØStickers ØHead teacher awards ØFriendship Jar ØName in lights and the Adventure Book!

Rewards and Sanctions In Year 1, we have a ‘star’ and the names of the children will be written on the star when they have done something positive, good learner, good friend etc. Yellow cards are used as a warning that a child’s behaviour is interrupting the learning environment or spoiling play times. A red card will be given if no improvement is seen, your child will then fill in a behaviour sheet which will be sent home. The school’s behaviour code is set out on the home-school agreement.

End of School day Ø Ø Year 1 leave school via the double white doors onto the playground. A member of staff will be on the door and a child will only be sent out once the teacher has seen the parent/grandparent. Parents and carers should wait on the playground to collect children. It is important we know if there any changes to your child’s home time arrangements. Please let the office know if someone else is picking up your child, even if it is a friend. I cannot let your child go home with someone else without your permission.

After school School run a variety of clubs as well as other providers who use our premises. Therefore, the field needs to be vacated to allow these to happen by 3. 30 pm.

Parent Partnership Ø Here at Wybunbury Delves, we have an open door policy. If you need to let me know any relevant information about your child’s day, please could these be in the form of a note/letter or email in case of change of staff as these are then kept in the register. Ø Please contact me via the office if you need to make an appointment regarding your child. Phone call/email.

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