1. Welcome to The Meerkats

2. Meet the Team Class Teacher - Mrs Carberry
Teaching Assistants – Miss Nicholls
Miss Hutchinson

3. Timetable

4. Reading Expectations
Use and apply knowledge of phonics to read unfamiliar words by segmenting and blending
Make one to one correspondence between spoken and written words
Read a wide range of common words on sight
Expect written text to make sense and be able to consistently self correct.
Re-read sentences to clarify meaning
Read aloud fluently with attention to a range of punctuation, using eyes to follow the text
Express feelings and opinions about stories and poems
Talk about a story and sequence a story eg, the main events, characters, ending etc
Answer simple questions about a text

5. Reading Expectations Continued
Children should be on blue books after October half term
Children should enter Year 1 reading yellow books
Children should leave Year 1 reading turquoise books

6. Phonics Expectations By the end of the year, children should:
Recognise taught graphemes and give the corresponding phonemes.
Recognise the taught phonemes and write the corresponding graphemes.
Apply their phonics skills to independently support themselves with reading and spelling unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable.
Read and spell phonetically decodable words.
Apply their phonics skills to decoding nonsenses (alien) words.
Most children should have completed phase 5

7. Writing Expectations By the end of the year, children should:
Write short narratives ensuring their sentences are sequenced and some simple description is included.
Check work makes sense by reading it to themselves and aloud to others.
Use and to join words and phases.
Use capital letters for names of people, places and days of the week and the pronoun I.
Use punctuation in some sentences (. A ! ?)
Able to make phonetically plausible attempts to spell words that have not yet been taught.
Some words containing previously taught phonemes, common exception words and days of the week are spelt accurately.
Some accurate uses of suffixes -s and -es to nouns and verbs and –ing, -ed, -est to root words which do not need changing.
Lower case, capital letters and digits 0-9 are mostly accurately formed.

8. Maths Expectations By the end of the year, children should:
Count to and across 100, forwards and backwards fro 0 and from any given number
Read and write numbers to 100
Write numbers 1 to 20 in words
Count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10
Identify 1 more and 1 less than a given number
Read write and solve mathematical number sentences involving addition (+) subtraction (-) and equals (=) signs
Recall and use number bonds to 10 and related subtraction facts within 20
Add and subtract one-digit and two-digit numbers up to 20
Solve various one step mathematical problems
Recognise, find and name a half and quarter of an object, shape and quantity

9. Supporting your child at home
Please encourage your child to read every day and write a comment in their reading diaries. Discussing the book with them really helps to develop their comprehension skills
To support your child with phonics, the children will receive phonic packs which are updated weekly with the sounds they are learning that week. Please use the resources to help consolidate your child’s learning.
21st September 3.30pm Phonics Workshop

10. Support for Parents
Please refer to the Parent Support booklets for maths, reading and writing, which can be found on the Meerkat’s page on our website.

11. Key Events Autumn Visit from Mr Benn Walk around Upton Spring
Trip to The Welsh Mountain Zoo
Summer
Phonics screening check
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