1. KS1 Parents Information Meeting
Wednesday 13th of September 2017

2. Meet the KS1 Phase Mrs Bould KS1 Phase Leader and Year 1 teacher
Miss Tyerman
Year 2 Teacher
Miss Shepherd
Year 2 teacher
Mrs Binns
Year 1 teacher
Mr Mazfari Teaching Assistant
Mrs Kidby Teaching Assistant
Mrs Gamble Teaching
Assistants
Mrs Mullins
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Peacock
Teaching Assistant
Mrs Pearson Teacher

3. KS1 Times of the Day 8:50am Doors open 9:00am Registration
10:30am – 10:45am Break time
12:00pm – 12:45pm Lunchtime
3:00pm Home time

4. KS1 Curriculum Phonics English Maths
Children have daily 30 minute phonic lessons through the week.
Children work in small target groups to learn a particular phase
Phonics
English
Children have daily lessons throughout the week. These lessons include reading, writing, spelling and GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling)
Maths
Children have daily lessons through the week.
5-a-day calculations are taught daily.

5. Spellings, Grammar and Punctuation
In KS1 children will have access to phonics and spelling sessions. In Year 2, when your child is ready, they will participate in a spelling scheme called ‘Read, Write, Inc Get Spelling’. These are specific discreet lessons that teach the spelling rules in the Year 2 curriculum.
As part of their homework, children will receive a specific set of spellings linked to your child’s year group. We would ask that these are practised at home regularly.

6. Handwriting

7. Reading Expectations in KS1
Reading at home is such a vital part of developing children’s reading so we would please ask for your support with this at least three times a week. Your child will be awarded with a dojo.
This regular additional reading is so important to consolidate the skills taught in school and will help your child earn the reading rewards so much quicker.
As we do value this opportunity to practise these skills, we will use golden time as an additional opportunity for children to read if they are falling behind with reading at home.

8. Reading Cards
This year we are introducing new ‘reading at home’ cards for each year group which will be entered into a weekly prize draw to win a book once they are completed.

9. Accelerated Readers
We became an ‘Accelerated Reader’ school at the beginning of this year.
This involves children reading books matched closely to their reading ability and then sitting quizzes online to assess their understanding of the book.
Successful completion of the quiz accrues points for the children.
As we want to encourage children to read, we will then be building in incentives when the children achieve 30, 60 and 90 points.
This reading scheme will be introduced to children who are at stage 8+ to boost their comprehension skills.

10. KS1 Expectations

11. History/Geography Topics PE Computing Science Art/DT Music PHSE RE
Other areas of the curriculum:
History/Geography
Topics PE
Computing
Science
Art/DT
Music
PHSE RE

12. Year 1 and 2
Topic Overview

13. Year 1 Phonics Screening Test
KS1 Expectations
Year 1 Phonics Screening Test
Week commencing
Monday 11th of June 2018
End of KS1 SATs Tests
Week commencing
Monday 21st of May 2018

14. Time out form – Team Leader Time out form – Head Teacher
Behaviour System
Traffic Light System
Time out form – Team Leader
Great Behaviour
Warning
Time off Golden Time
Time out form – Head Teacher

15. School Uniform PE Uniform Royal blue sweatshirt or cardigan
White polo shirt or plain white school shirt
Grey trousers or skirt (knee length, grey shorts may be
worn in warm weather)
Blue gingham dress in Summer
Plain grey pinafore dress
Black shoes or black trainers (no boots or heeled shoes or shoes with white/coloured markings)
Simple hair grips and bobbles (no over the top hair decorations)
Items may have the school’s logo if wished, but this is not compulsory.
Indoor PE:
Navy blue shorts
Short sleeved, white T shirt of appropriate length
Outdoor PE:
Short sleeved, white T shirt
Trainers or outdoor plimsolls
Navy or grey jogging trousers and sweatshirts may be worn in cold weather

16. PE Days in KS1
Year 1 - Tuesdays
Year 2 - Fridays

17. Homework in KS1
We are changing how we do homework this year across school, following discussion at the new parents’ forum in the summer term.
As a staff, we have come up with a list of homework activities that we feel are the most important things you can do at home to support your child’s learning. If these activities are done at home consistently, we feel that it will have a significant positive impact on your child’s learning in school.
This list will include:
Regular reading (minimum three times a week)
Learning timestables up to 4x tables
Learning year group spellings
Practising telling the time
In addition to this list, we will also send out a list of topic related homework which you can choose to do with your child at home if you wish.

18. Questions
Information Pack
Feedback Form