Welcome to Year 1 Please help yourself to refreshments

1. Welcome to Year 1 Please help yourself to refreshments

2. Year 1 Team Mrs Tinker (Monday – Wednesday) Mrs James (Thursday and Friday) Miss Livermore

3. Year 1’s Keys to Success

5. Year1’sCurriculum

6. Autumn Term Visitors Trips English History D&T The Seaside Maths Geography Art Music ICT R.E PSHCE

7. Fabulous Finish To conclude our study of the Seaside we would like to invite all parents to attend our own Beach Bonanza. This will be a fantastic opportunity to see your child’s learning from this topic.

8. Supporting Your Child • Reading: • Support your child’s fluency and understanding by listening to them read for at least 10 minutes a day. • Please complete your child’s reading record so we know that they have read and what they are reading. • Maths: • Support your child by counting regularly and using numbers in everyday situations. • Cook and measure ingredients for a meal or a cake. • Encourage your child to tell the time and calculate time intervals, including converting between 12 and 24 hour time. • Calculate and estimate the cost of shopping. • Daily counting to improve number fluency.

9. Supporting Your Child • Spellings: • Each week your child will receive 6 spellings. They will be tested each Wednesday morning. • Support your child in learning their weekly spellings. • Writing: • Encourage lots of discussion to develop their vocabulary. • Write birthday and Christmas cards. • Encourage your child to keep a diary. • Try and write something everyday no matter how small. • Look out for the word of the week and encourage pupils to use it in the correct context.

10. Home Learning • Each week, your child will receive ‘Home Learning’ tasks for English or maths. • They will be given a choice of activities based on the previous week’s learning. • Please encourage your child to challenge their thinking. • Home Learning tasks are given out on a Friday and are due in the following Wednesday. • Please encourage your child to participate in the school’s ‘Maths Challenge.’ Each fortnight there will be a new challenge to be won. • In addition to this, we would like to see your child participating in the half termly creative project, which ends with your child’s work presented in the ‘gallery’ held in the hall at the end of the school day.

11. P.E kit Games: Wednesday afternoon – Football skills P.E: Hall – Friday morning - gymnastics For all physical education lessons, it is expected that your child will have the correct equipment. P.E Kit: Navy shorts T-shirt, which is their team colour Plimsolls or trainers (for outdoor work) Warm clothing in winter months such as a tracksuit. If they have an ear piecing it must be removed or your child must use tape to cover their ears.

12. Healthy Minds • Please ensure that your child has a clear water bottle in school. • This year we would like to encourage pupils to bring in a healthy snack during break times. The snack must be a fruit snack. • All lunch boxes should not include sweets or a fizzy drink. • At Key Stage 1, all pupils are entitled to a free school meal.

13. Communication • Class Dojos for rewards and sanctions. • (Effort, great work, team work, good listening, role model, reading) • Class Pages. • (http://www.southbersted.w-sussex.sch.uk/class-pages/) • Weekly newsletters. • Parent teacher consultations. • Parent Forum. • Termly ‘Meet and Greet,’ afternoons. • Interim reports. • End of year reports.

14. Rewards and Sanctions • Rewards • Class Dojos. • Weekly Red Book. • Headteacher’s Award. • Sanctions • Clear classroom expectations. • if a child is not following the class and school rules, then they • will have a verbal reminder. • If the behaviour continues they will be asked to move seats. • If the behaviour continues still they will work in a partner class. • Use of lunch time detentions.

15. Autumn Term Key Dates Trip to Bognor Beach - 20th September Beach Bonanza - Wednesday 7th December 2.30pm Trip to Bognor Beach and Bognor Museum - TBA Parent Teacher Consultations - 7th and 8th October

16. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. We look forward to working with you in supporting your child’s learning. Are there any questions?