ST. JOHN’S C. E. PRIMARY SCHOOL

Year 1 Meet the TeamAutumn 2015

Meet the Team Mrs Natalie Pearson (Rabbit Class) – Assistant Head

teacher for Years R and 1

Mrs Jen Ferguson and Mrs Lynette Watts – 1FW Teaching Assistants – Mrs Vicky Hinton and Mrs Julie

Dent

Miss Jenny Sandles – 1S Teaching Assistants – Mrs Lisa Trebilco and Mrs Ayse

Bahriyeli

Mrs Ailsa Taylor and Mrs Elaine Chappell – 1TC Teaching Assistant – Mrs Alison Crawford

Inclusion Team

Michaela Luckett – Inclusion Leader Jane Gibby – SEND Manager Lucy Hession – Assistant SEND Manager Rebecca Wambeek – EAL Support Teacher Audra Maskell – Family and Child Support

Advisor Bev Lunn – School Counsellor

Things to know• Morning routine• Milk • KS1 fruit – please do not bring in snacks

for your child.• Lunch• Water bottles• Parent helpers – Disclosure and Barring

Service check (formally called CRB)• Speaking to the teacher• Label all clothes please! • No toys in school. • “This Week’s Learning” – Weekly update

on our website for each year group

Equipment for Class Water bottle Book bag Home school partnership book Cagoule in school at all times please Coat, gloves and hat Summer – sunhat, please ensure sun cream

is applied before school

It is essential to ensure all items are named so we can return them to their owner when they are misplaced.

New Curriculum expectations – please see the booklets provided.

Our Learning JourneysAutumn TermOut of the Blue

Spring TermOut of the Egg

Summer TermOn My Doorstep

Please help us to keep these learning journeys as a surprise for the children.

Assessment and Tests

Ongoing assessments during the year for reading, writing and maths – formative assessments and summative assessments

End of year assessments – summative assessments

National Year 1 Phonics Check – June 2016

PE and Games • Please keep their PE kit in school at all times:

• White T-shirt, (Coloured T-shirts for houses are not required until Year 2)

• Navy blue shorts

• Plimsolls

• Socks

• Track-suit or similar for winter games

• Trainers

• Cagoule

• Earrings must be taken out or taped

All named please

Homework Phonics (Friday for Wednesday) – based on daily phonics teaching and high

frequency words.

Handwriting (Friday for Wednesday) – To help encourage cursive handwriting.

Maths (Friday for Friday) – differentiated activities on Mathletics or another website based on the maths they have been practising that particular week.

Reading – We stress the importance of reading. This could be fiction, non-fiction, magazines, websites, instructions. Reading to your child (or sometimes a story tape or CD) is really valuable for all children, so even a bedtime story counts! A variety of different reading activities and texts is important for your child to broaden his/ her skills.

A minimum of 5 minutes each day, sharing a book together and reading for fun, will make all the difference to your child.

Phonics and handwriting

Every week on a Friday your child will bring home a Phonics Book. This will include a short task based on their phonics learning for that week. Please ensure it is returned by the following Wednesday.

Please continue daily reading with your child to allow them to continue to practise their phonics skills.

Your child will also bring home a handwriting book on a Friday. Please ensure your child practises their cursive handwriting using correct letter sizes. Please ensure it is returned by the following Wednesday.

Phonics TerminologyPhoneme - The smallest unit of sound that you can hear within a word; the word phoneme refers to the sound, not the letter(s). For example, in the word chat, there are three phonemes (ch-a-t).

Grapheme - A letter or group of letters representing a sound and we use the letter names for this. For example, the ‘c’ sound can be spelled with ‘c’, ‘k’ or ‘ck’ graphemes (as in ‘car’, ‘kite’ and ‘lock’).

GPC - This stands for grapheme phoneme correspondences. This simply means that they are taught all the phonemes in the English language and ways of writing them down.

Digraph - A two letter grapheme, such as ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘oa’ (two letters making one sound).

Split digraph: the ‘e’ at the end of words works with another letter to make a sound. Think about the difference between hop and hope – both have three sounds but the split digraph in hope creates a ‘long o’ sound.

Trigraph: A three letter grapheme such igh as in high, ear as in fear, air as in fair. (three letters making one sound).

Phonics TerminologySegmenting -  In order to read unfamiliar words children learn to segment them into phonemes.  Eg c-a-t.  This process also helps them when they are trying to spell words.  

Blending - Children are also taught to blend which is the opposite of segmenting. This is when children say the sounds that make up a word and are able to merge the sounds together until they can hear what the word is, this helps them learn to read.

Tricky word - Words like ‘they’ and ‘said’ which can’t be sounded out easily.

HFW – (High Frequency Word) A word that occurs often in a text such as ‘it’ or ‘the’.

Alien words – Words made up of different phonemes to assess their phonics knowledge rather than words they know by sight, for example ‘shem’ (sh-e-m).

Sound buttons – Dots and dashes written beneath a word to represent sounds.

Reading

Children are encouraged to change books independently every day.

Reading scheme

Guided reading groups– in class once a week

Opportunities for individual reading in class

Library – one weekly session – 1 book

Library Days

1FW - Thursday1S – Mondays

1TC – Tuesday

All children will have an opportunity to choose a library book. Please return the book the following week in the book bag.

Diary DatesINSET Days28th September11th April

Parents Consultation Evenings13th October 3.40-8.00pm14th October 3.40-6.00pm

20th January 2016 3.40-8.00pm21st January 2016 3.40-6.00pm

Individual photographs6th October

Nativity 9/10/11 December (times to follow)

1FW Assembly – Friday 13th November

Year Group Trip to Hastings – 30th September.Year Group Trip to St John’s Fish and Chip Bar – 5th November.

Can you help?

Do you have any artefacts, materials, experiences or information that could help us with our learning? Any spare time to help within the year group on a regular basis?

If you have please talk to class teachers.