Welcome to Year One Meet the Teachers Meet

Welcome to Year One Meet the Teachers

Meet our Year One Team 1 R 1 O 1 M Miss Georgiou Miss Michel (Year Group Leader) Miss Waters Teaching assistant: Mrs Todorova Teaching assistant: Mrs Naik Teaching assistant: Mrs Dunn :

Routines • At 8. 50 am – Children line up in their designated areas, ready for the teacher. • Our register and school day starts at 9. 00 am • Our break and lunch times are: Morning break 10. 45 am – 11. 00 am Lunch 12. 45 pm-1. 45 pm • Our school day finishes at 2. 50 pm – children will be sent home from their classrooms.

Our aims: • Our aim is to ensure that the children experience a smooth transition from the Foundation Stage to Key Stage One. • The Year 1 curriculum builds upon and extends the experiences that children have had in Reception. During the first half term, children will continue to approach their learning through structured, play based activities which mirror their experience from early years. • We believe in providing children with a broad and well balanced curriculum through a range of individual, small group and large group activities. • Learning through play will continue to be an important part of the school day, so that, as the year progresses, the children will remain motivated, enthused and eager learners.

Learning Journeys • Over the year, the children will be working on different learning journeys which will cover the key knowledge and skills outlined in the National Curriculum. • Children will be encouraged to generate their own questions and explore possible answers.

Our Learning Journeys this year are: Toys Winter Fire! Plants Amazing Animals Healthy body, healthy mind

Learning in Year 1 • English and Mathematics are taught daily. In these lessons we focus on teaching the children key skills, through practical and problem solving activities. • Our lessons are differentiated to meet the needs of all children and we provide different opportunities for independent, group and paired work.

English Mathematics Say out loud what they are going to write about Count and write numerals to 100 Count in multiples of twos, fives and tens Write numbers in words up to 20 Compose a sentence orally before writing it Leave spaces between words Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark Join words and clauses using and Re-read what they’ve written to check that it makes sense Continue to learn new graphemephoneme correspondences (sounds) and revise and consolidate those learnt earlier Form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers to 20, including zero Represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20 Solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction Recognise and name 2 -D and 3 -D shapes. Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months and years Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour Use the vocabulary of halves and quarters in context Compare, describe, measure and begin to record and solve problems for length/height/capacity/time

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Reading • The children will take two levelled reading books home every week. We would really appreciate it if you could read with your child everyday and record in your child’s orange reading record book as we would like to know how they are getting on with their reading at home. The children will be assessed against the Year 1 Assessment Foci before they are moved to the next book band. • The children's reading books will be changed on a weekly rota. • In your child’s orange reading record book, there is a target sheet which relates to your child’s level of reading. This will give you ideas on how to help your child become a more fluent reader and help them to progress onto the next band. • Book bags need to be brought into school everyday please.

Home Learning • Home learning will be sent home weekly and will be differentiated according to your child’s needs. The activity will be a consolidation of what your child has been learning that week. • A Home Learning book will be sent home every Friday and will need to be returned every Tuesday. • Either English, Mathematics or Learning Journey work will be sent home, with guidance. • We will also be sending home, every half term, a set of the first 100 High Frequency Words for you to practise reading, spelling and writing in a sentence with your child. Please help your child to practise these regularly over the half term in their Home Learning books.

P. E Class Days 1 R Friday 1 O Friday 1 M Friday • On Friday, your child will need to come into school dressed their P. E kit and will wear this all day. • Your child will need to attend school wearing a white t-shirt, black/navy shorts, jogging bottoms (for outside P. E. during the colder months) and trainers.

Throughout the year, if you have any concerns, no matter how big or small they are, please come and talk to us first. Please contact the office via email or phone and they will pass the message on. We are here to help! Thank you