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Welcome to Year One!

Get important information about daily routines, communication with teachers, pick-up arrangements, snacks, values, reading, phonics and handwriting curriculum, science topics, PE requirements, and tips on how to support your child's learning.

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Welcome to Year One!

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  1. Welcome to Year One!

  2. Timetables/Daily Routines: • Your class teacher or Learning Assistant meet you at the door. Please encourage your child to come in by themselves. • If you need to pass an urgent, quick message to the class teacher feel free to talk to them at the door. Anything more in-depth please telephone the office to make an appointment. • Inform teacher/LA and office of different pick up arrangements, don’t forget to set a password with the office • Fruit provided at playtime. Milk (if ordered) • Feel free to send your child in with a snack of fruit or vegetable. Water only please. Don’t forget coats.

  3. • Positivity • Respect • Aspirational • Resilient • Team Player • Thinker One of these will be the focus for the term across both primary schools. Assemblies will be based around this value. Values September 2019

  4. Good to be green • Class dojos – House points, values and learning behaviours. School reward system

  5. Reading

  6. All children to bring book bags in every day. • Books to be changed on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday. • Please read the book twice. Decoding, then fluency. • Please comment on your child’s reading or sign to say you have heard them read. Links into the reading tree. • Teachers are always assessing the children’s reading and will move them to the next level when they feel they are ready to do so, based on our school’s scheme and national curriculum guidelines. Children at WPA should aim to leave Year 1 on Stage 9 (Orange). • Reading takes on many guises, we listen to children read in class, share books with them and model good practice. Reading

  7. We teach phonics 5 times a week. • Read Write Ink (RWI) • Spellings – not sent home, learnt through RWI • Phonics screening statutory national assessment (June). • Handwriting- learning to join letters - taught in small groups Phonics/ Handwriting

  8. Curriculum Web

  9. Science • Seasons • Senses • Materials • Plants • Animals • Habitats • Recycling

  10. Navy blue shorts or track suit bottoms. • School t-shirt . • Plimsolls must be worn for outdoor games (no laces unless the can tie them themselves). • No jewellery or watches. • Long hair tied back. • PE Day: Friday afternoon P.E

  11. Routine, food and sleep! • Have fun – enjoy their childhood and their interests! • Read as often, and as widely as possible. • Play board games. • Trips and outings. • Promote independence- dressing, eating, book bag and bottle. • Problem solving, real life situations. Shopping • Read stories with them at bedtime. How can I support my child?

  12. Please carefully choose your child’s meal. Any problems speak to the office • Everything to be clearly named. • No toys or football cards in school. • Bags-keyrings (x1). • Water bottles – please don’t put them in book bags. • PE kits. Gentle reminders

  13. Thank you for listening Please follow your child’s class teacher back to their classroom for questions.

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