Together Everyone Achieves More Welcome to Year 1 Together Everyone Achieves More

The Team Class Teachers Mrs Mannering/Mrs Walker 1E Miss Walsh 1C Teaching Assistants Mrs Pezzolo/Mrs Sibley Madame Wilks (French) Mr Smith (P.E.)

Transition…….. What does a day in Year 1 look like? What do we expect?

Year 1 Weekly Timetable

Maths Expectations Number and Place Value (2’s, 5’s and 10’s) - 100 Addition and Subtraction (+ - =) to 20 Measures (Weight/Height/Length/Mass) Fractions (half/quarter) Geometry (2D shapes) - Position Multiplication and Division (pictorial)

English Expectations Spelling – un words/suffixes s, es, ing, ed, er, est Year one common exception words. Punctuation – capital letters and full stops/question marks and exclamation marks when needed. Proof Reading/Drafting/Editing. Handwriting.

Phonics All Year 1 children will complete a national screening test the week commencing 12th June 2017. This screening will assess their ability to segment and blend words using Phase 2,3 and 5 phonemes. There will be 40 words, 20 real and 20 non real words. We do not know the words to test until the screening commences. Phonics will happen daily in the Year 1 classrooms. Phonics Play.

How to help your child. Flashcards provided in the pack are to support your child in reading and writing all of the phonemes. These can be used in isolation or as a game. E.g. choosing 9 sounds and playing a mini boggle game with an adult. There are phase 2,3 and 5 phoneme mats for your child to use with any written work they are doing. Year 1 common Exception Word list – the expectation is that they need to read and write all of these words by the end of Year 1.

Afternoons Art Science DT RE - Come and See History Geography Music Drama

Homework Homework and spellings will be given out every Friday. This needs to be returned the following Thursday. The Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheets are intended to be done on 5 separate occasions through the week. Children are encouraged to read their reading books with an adult as often as possible. Please sign your child’s diary so that reading books can be changed on the allocated book day. Encourage your children to sound out words when you are out and about e.g. road signs, labels, advertisements etc

Other key points Book changing day. Fruit and water/milk. Parent helpers. Uniform and PE kit labelled.

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