Welcome to Year 1: Unicorns and Dinosaurs

1. Welcome to Year 1: Unicorns and Dinosaurs

2. Year 1 Team • Miss Myers – Class Teacher - Unicorns • Mr Clarke – Class Teacher – Dinosaurs • Mrs Turner, Mrs Kennedy, Mrs Hurdle – Learning Support Practioners • Mrs Mitchell – Intervention support

3. Year 1 Expectations as a Learner

4. Learning Challenge Curriculum • Topic based learning: · Making comparisons between now and when parents and grandparents were young. · Putting events in chronological order. · Using words like ‘old’, ‘new’ and ‘a long time ago’. Pencil skills and drawing Are computer games more fun than Grandma and Grandpa’s toys? · Using different programs on the computer · Choosing different tools to create a picture. Gymnastics —basic skills—rolls and jumps Dance—Streamers

5. English in Year 1 • This term we are exploring: Stories in familiar settings, Labels and Captions, Recounts and Dictionary Skills. • Our spellings will be linked to our Phonics phase and will go home at the end of each week. We also encourage children to practise the Year 1 spellings. • We have high standards of presentation; children should be writing on the line and forming their letters correctly. We will start handwriting this half term as a foundation for joining after Christmas. • Our text for this half term will be ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’ and we try to link most of our writing to this theme to give children a purpose for writing. • Guided reading sessions will take place daily for children to practise key reading skills. Every child will read once a week with an adult.

6. End of Year expectations • Reading:

7. End of Year expectations • Writing:

8. Numeracy • We have incorporated ‘Maths – No Problem!’ this half term which is a Singapore maths teaching approach. • This half term we will be: • Counting, reading and writing numbers to 10; • Writing numbers as words; • Finding 1 more and 1 less than a number; • Addition and subtraction. • As with every subject, we expect high standards of presentation.

9. End of Year expectations • Numeracy:

10. Homework • We set 2 books on Bug Club at an appropriate level for each child. These should be read throughout the week as new books will be set on a weekly basis. • My Maths is set on a Thursday each week to be completed for the following Thursday. • Learning Logs will be sent home with a new task fortnightly.

11. Physical Education • Wednesday and Thursday – remember to wear your P.E. Kits on these days. Please make sure your child has trainers not plimsolls or astroturf shoes.

12. Healthy Minds • Children should bring a water bottle to school which they will have access to throughout the day. • A morning snack of fruit is provided at play time. • Packed lunches should be healthy.

13. Our Class rules • Listen carefully. • Put your hand up to ask a question. • Use classroom voices. • Use kind words, kind hands and kind feet. • Smile everyday.

14. Behaviour and Discipline • We primarily use positive reinforcement in Year 1. As a whole class, children can earn marbles in the jar to gain a class reward. Dojo points and stickers are awarded to individuals for positive behaviour. • On a Monday we award a Star of the week and Work of the week which is recognised in assembly and with a certificate. • Green card – 1st warning; • Yellow card – 2nd warning and miss 5 minutes of play; • Red card – miss play • Phase leader – Miss Walters

15. Thank You We look forward to getting to know you all!