Meet The Teacher Information

 Hello Year One,

As promised you will find the information discussed at 'Meet the Teacher' below.

Meet The Teacher – Year One

 

What to bring to school?

·      A school reading bag and a PE bag which preferably is a small drawstring bag which will hold a pair of plimsolls, shorts, t-shirt, trainers and a track suit.

·      Please can you ensure that each item of clothing is labelled clearly with your child’s name. Changing for PE is a big step in Year One and although we are trying to get into a routine clothes do get mislaid. If they are labelled it makes it so much easier to get the clothes back to the children.

·      Please can you refrain from allowing your child to bring toys into school. There will be many opportunities for them to bring items from home that are topic related.

·      We have a no jewelry policy which includes earrings.

What will the children be learning in Year One?

·      Timetable – please see attached.

·      Phonics will be taught on a daily basis. The terminology will also be taught. In June a phonics test will be given which includes real and fake words.

·      Reading – we will hear your children read as often as possible and aim to hear readers either in a group or individually at least once a week. The children will take a reading book home every day. We need your help with this. We would like them to read to someone every day. Whoever hears them read should write a comment in the reading journal. The children must bring their reading book back to school every day. Once they have finished a book they can choose another.

We have nine different book boxes in the classroom and your child will know which box he/she will choose from. Each box has a selection of books and your child can choose which one he/she wants to read.

Reading is very important at this stage in your child’s educational development. The more experiences your child gets the more familiar the written word becomes.

I would also encourage reading books to your child, sharing books, comics and any reading material that your child shows an interest in.

·      Alongside daily reading the children will be given a card of ‘tricky words’ to learn at home. These are words that don’t follow the usual patterns or sounds. These need to be practised as often as possible.

·      The children will also be given the opportunity to choose a library book to take home every week. I will confirm the day this will be happening. They must return the book before they can take another one.

·      Following the half-term break the children will be learning spellings at home and school. There will be three groups and the spellings will be differentiated accordingly. They will have a chance to practise them at school, but will need to do so at home in conjunction with this. On Fridays we have a spelling test.

·      Please read my blog on a weekly basis. The blog is released every Friday afternoon. Alongside information and pictures of the children’s learning I will be explaining the lessons we will be covering for the following week. It really helps if you can chat to your child about our topics and share your areas of interest.

·      Every half term we ask the children to carry out a ‘home learning’ project. This could be simply researching a topic that is coming up or creating a list for party shopping. It could be a more in depth project such as creating a home for an animal to live in or a math’s challenge. The children love it when someone at home helps with these projects, but we ask that the work is predominantly your child’s.

How can I help my child?

·      Read with your child every day.

·      Help them learn ‘tricky’ words.

·      Spend time with them to encourage them to read and learn to spell their spellings

·      Read the blog every week and discuss what we have been learning and what we will be learning the following week.

·      If you have any concerns or queries regarding your child or school, please come and see me at the end of the day and we can either have a chat there and then or I can book an appointment for you. Email is a great form of communication and very helpful for information in the mornings.

 

	8.40am	9.00am		9.30-950          950- 1030		10.40-10.55 am	11.00am	12.00-1.10pm	1.10pm	1.45-2.15pm	2.45-3.05pm
Monday	Independent reading	Assembly		Phonics               English                                      CIL			Maths   CIL		RE	PE	Story
Tuesday	Independent reading	Spellings Handwriting & Phonics		English     CIL			Maths   CIL		PE	PE	Story
Wednesday	Independent reading	Assembly		English       CIL			Maths		Science	CIL	Story
Thursday	Independent reading	Assembly		English         CIL			Maths		ART	History	Story
Friday	Independent reading	Assembly (9.00-9.25am)	Music		English   CIL		PE		PSHE	CIL	Story

 If you need any further information please come and see me.

Many thanks 

Ms Davis