Welcome to Glen Park Primary School

1. Welcome to Glen Park Primary School Foundation Stage Intake September 2006

2. Partnership • You are your child’s foremost educator; Your influence carries on for a lifetime • Your child’s education is a joint responsibility • By the time a child starts school, she has already got 85% of her language skills • Your child, between the ages of 0 and 16, will spend just 15% of his waking hours at school

3. The Induction Process • Parent:teacher appointments • Home School Agreement • Staggered entry • Importance of establishing a secure start • Allows children the chance to find their way around their new environment • Opportunity for teachers to get to know each child closely from the beginning • Allows teachers to carry out ‘baseline assessment’ of each child

4. Structure of the day • Children arrive between 8.45 and 8.55, to be inside the classroom by 8.55 ready for the Register • Morning break for fruit, drink and play is at 10.30 until 11.00 • Lunchtime is from 12.00 until 1.00 • Afternoon break for play and fresh air is from 2.00 until 2.10 • Home time is 3.15

5. Lunchtime • Healthy lunch = healthy mind and body! • A good balanced meal - a sandwich, a salad, some fruit or yogurt and a drink of juice or milk • A school dinner • Playtime is social time; The MTAs will supervise play and encourage children to play games with each other

6. People Who Work With Your Child Speech Therapists

7. What Will the Children Be Doing? • Choosing a book • Playing with the toys • Painting and drawing • Using the ‘home corner’ • Playing with the sand and water • Using the bikes and trikes • Singing, dancing and role-playing

8. What will they need? • Wellies • Tracksuit bottoms • School uniform, including PE Kit • Water to drink throughout the day

9. The Early Learning Goals

10. How Teaching and Learning Progress: • Foundation stage: pre school and the first year of school • Children follow the early learning goals for the foundation stage • Key Stage 1 – Years 1 and 2 • Children follow the National Curriculum (10 subjects), and sit their SATs in the summer term of Year 2 • Key Stage 2 – Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 • Children follow the National Curriculum still, and sit their SATs in the summer term of Year 6

11. Assessment • Baseline Assessment – within first half-term • Foundation Stage Profile • Teacher Assessment - continuous • PIPs – Foundation, Year 1 and Year 4 • Year 2: Standard Assessment Tests/Tasks • Year 6: Standard Assessment Tests

12. How Parents Can Help Us • Talk to your child about their day • Read to or with your child every day • Check the book bag for messages • Use the reading record to communicate with teachers (or a quick word in the morning/afternoon) • Encourage your child to be independent • Come into school by himself (after the first few days) • Have the right things on the right days

13. Developing Learning Outside School • Getting the balance right: children need to play and they need to rest. However, you can use all sorts of activities as learning opportunities: • Shopping • Cooking • Cleaning • Laundry • Gardening • Washing the car • Tidying

14. How We Can Help You • If you have any questions at all, ask one of the staff. • We will issue a termly ‘topic web’ which details the work to be covered that term. • If you want more ideas of how to help at home, ask the teachers. • We will send home a weekly newsletter so that you know what is going on in school. • You will be invited to regular meetings to discuss your child. • We will make ourselves available to talk to you – immediately if possible, but if not, then as soon as we can.