1. A warm welcome to Year 1.

2. Purpose of this evening
Introduce the team
Share expectations
Communication between home and school
Answer any questions

3. Team Introduction
Teachers – Mrs Horner, Mrs Stephenson, Miss Grant and Mrs Mills
Teaching Assistants – Mrs Guy and Mrs Day
Other staff – PE Team, Mr Perry and Senora Rodrigez

4. The Academy Term dates regularly updated on the bulletin
Value – respect
Register – completed electronically with a closing time of 8:55
Class assemblies – great success and will continue

5. Library Library visits to start this week Books to borrow:
Picture books
Non fiction books
Early readers
More confident reading books

6. Our Principles Transition- delay, research Slow and steady
Child led learning/ small groups/ supportive and nurturing
Hotspotting
Calming and reassuring whilst following KS1 curriculum

7. Year 1 Curriculum English Text – Funnybones
Skills – Punctuation, understanding the term prediction and exploration of the text, develop imagination, using descriptive words, description of people and setting.
Outcome – To write our own story.
Moving on to – Traditional Tales

8. Year 1 Curriculum
Maths- Developing a deep understanding. Ensuring skills are embedded before moving on. Working on number skills. Partitioning, addition and subtraction methods.
Investigations- Using and applying skills.
Moving on to mental math strategies to prepare them for Year 2.

9. Year 1 Curriculum Science- Our body.
Learning about body parts, the skeleton, internal organs and now moving on to learning about the purpose of senses.
Practical lessons.
Seasons- Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer, Months and weather.

10. Year 1 Curriculum Theme: Funnybones. Linked to our Science unit.
Visitors to talk to the children linked to our theme.
Trips-
Geography – Summer Term. Looking at maps, atlas, understanding the world a little better, compare with another country
History – Great Fire of London and old toys.
DT/Art – cooking, making pop ups, painting, drawing, discovering.

11. Groupings
Teach English in classes– provide deep level learning opportunities through applying skills through theme subjects
Class teacher has very secure understanding of English needs – can be picked up across Foundation teaching
Phonics groups
Maths groups after Christmas
Very fluid
Best learning environment for your child
Tailoring learning needs to each child

12. Assemblies and Trips The class assemblies dates are to follow
Trips- park and later on in year…
Harvest Festival
Christmas production

13. Behaviour 5 learning behaviours 5 social behaviours
Incentives: House tokens (1 and 3 points)
A and B choices
Happy grams
Praise Pod
Reward time
Stickers

14. School uniform Autumn/Winter uniform (please go to office for list)
Grey/navy socks
Grey/navy outdoor coat
No jewellery (except small studs), nail varnish, large head bands
Book bags – named and with only 1 small key ring please
All uniform labelled please

15. Independence
Monitors
Belongings
Environment
Dressing

16. Lunches Healthy lunch policy No juice in water bottles
No nut products – allergies
KS1 – universal free school meals

17. P.E and Games P.E kit- including a plastic bag Hair Earrings
Warm tracksuit
Encourage your children to dress and undress more independently.
Named items

18. Reading
Books- working on developing solid comprehension skills and fluency.
Guided Reading in classes.
Reading Record.
2 reading books to come this week. Colour band and phonics

21. Helping at home Read the book and identify the target sound.
Play hunt the sound – get your child to identify how one sound (phoneme) can have different spellings (graphemes). E.g. the ay sound can be represented by ai, a-e, a, ae, ey, ea, eigh, aigh.
Play hunt the spelling – get your child to identify how one spelling (grapheme) can have different sounds (phonemes). E.g. the oo spelling can represent oo as in book and oo as in moon.

22. Helping at home
Retell the story, perhaps through drama, using as many of the target sound words identified in previous reading.
Discuss an alternative ending encouraging children to use words that include the target sound.

23. Helping at home
Share other texts- additional reading list, First News.
Comprehension skills- make predictions, inference skills- how is a character feeling using evidence from the text or make plausible predictions.
Look at features of particular text types features of organisation, e.g. beginning and ending of story, types of punctuation, information books, stories, print media
improve vocabulary or identify words and why have they been used. E.g. slimy.

24. Helping at home
Maths:
Practical maths- money, cooking, counting objects, playing games such as Snakes and Ladders, handling money, counting and recognition of numbers.
Local library

25. Helping at home
Homework logs
Spellings

26. Phonics Sounds~ Write Spelling investigations
Feeling of success highly motivational and encouraging.

27. Communication Home School Organisers Reading Record Books
Show and Tell
Phone call and s
School bulletin/ Parentmail/ Website
Newsletters from Year 1. First one to be sent this week.

28. E-safety. WATCH VIDEO Who- who are my children talking to online?
What- what are they doing online?
Where- where are my children going online?
Explore these questions with your children to maximise dialogue, support your children, set rules and boundaries whilst they are the internet.
Watch the video- Lee and Kim
Support is always available from the following websites.
go to the parent/carer section and use the clickceop button to seek advice.
visit the know it all section for an interactive guide for an interactive guide about online safety.
free up to date security advice for parents.
Internet safety-
E-safety is an important part of keeping children safe at Bourton Meadow Academy. We have extensive security measures in place in school, which are monitored both internally and externally, to help safe guard children from potential dangers or unsuitable material. As parents, we know that you also have security measures available to keep your children safe at home. It is important to remember that the internet is a fantastic resource for both adults and young people but we need to remember the safety implications for the children. How many of you actually know what apps your children are accessing and what they are viewing online? There are 3 really important questions to consider when talking to your children. Think WWW!
Who- who are my children talking to online?
What- what are they doing online?
Where- where are my children going online?
Explore these questions with your children to maximise dialogue, support your children, set rules and boundaries whilst they are the internet.
Support is always available from the following websites.
go to the parent/carer section and use the clickceop button to seek advice.
visit the know it all section for an interactive guide for an interactive guide about online safety.
free up to date security advice for parents.

29. Pupil Premium
Application form from the office or speak to Julie Atherton for a list of criteria which is based on individual families financial circumstances.

30. Questions