1. Welcome to Year 1 at Harold Court Primary
September 2018
Welcome to Year 1 at Harold Court Primary
Class teachers:
Mrs Emson & Mrs Burns
Mrs Rose
Teaching assistants: Mrs Elton, Miss Walden, Mr Walker & Mrs Moody

2. Expectations of the children
Positive attitude
Motivation
Independence
Resilience
Co-operation
Punctuality
Enjoyment
Smart appearance

3. Uniform… our schools identity is everyone’s responsibility
Winter uniform
Pale blue shirts
Ties for both girls and boys
Hair tied back with ONLY blue white yellow bands/ribbons
School shoes – black
NO BOOTS
School jumper
Coat
White socks for girls
Grey socks for boys
Book bags for EYFS – Y5 ONLY
Summer uniform
Pale blue polo shirts
Pale blue blouses for girls
Blue/White gingham dresses
Hair tied back with ONLY blue white yellow bands/ribbons
School shoes – black
NO BOOTS
School jumper
Coat
White socks for girls
Grey socks for boys
Caps – school caps are sold now
Book bags for EYFS – Y5 ONLY

4. The Harold Court Way
Class charter: will be devised together and a copy given attached to the planners

5. Stay on GOLD

6. Curriculum map for

7. Timetable Phonics 8:40 – 9:00 9:00-9:20 9:20-10:15 Break 10:15- 10:30
8:40 – 9:00
9:00-9:20
9:20-10:15
Break :15- 10:30
Fruit/Milk and Mental maths 10:30 – 10:40 Assembly 10:30 -10:45
10:45 – 11:55
11:55-12:15
12:15 – 1:15
Lunch
1:15 2:15
2:15 – 3:15
NOTES
Monday
Sentence of the Week/Fine Motor Skills
Phonics
English
SPAG PE
Guided Reading
Maths RE
Staff Meeting
Music/French
Tuesday
Science / Golden Time
Planning Meeting
Wednesday
ICT
Star awards to the office
Thursday
PSHE/Music/French
Art/DT
Friday
English /
Big Write
Learning challenge/
Golden Time
Planning to copier room

8. Homework A partnership with parents
Reading – daily
Spellings – given out on Mondays and tested the following week, scores written in planners
MyMaths and Bug Club – set weekly if appropriate.
Maths and SPAG CGP books – given out Fridays, due back on Wednesdays

9. Assessing your child…
Harold Court Symphony sheets outlining age-related expectations in Reading, Writing and Maths.
It is expected that by the end of the year children will have made from summer term to summer term 1 point progress which is ‘good’ progress, it is our aim that together your child will be working at Secure in each core area of the curriculum.
The child’s teacher will highlight and date statements in the appropriate column when evidence has been shown repeatedly.
Sheets provided are of the criteria for our year group for you to take away

10. Here are samples of our tracking sheets – information is gathered from daily teaching. These are skills which must be accomplished independently.
Writing
Maths
Reading
You will notice that some skills are ‘red’ these are key performance indicators – which if children are
Working below their age we will look at children acquiring the ‘red’ skills of the previous year for catch up
Purposes.
The tables at the bottom are indicators for children that they need to aim to be on green by the end of
The year. These sheets are used to inform you as parents of progress each term in reports that we write.

11. How can you help?
Remaining positive and sharing positive things with each other
Name all clothing
Water bottles with names
Sun hats and sun cream
Coats
No jewellery
Sleep
Breakfast
Homework (handed in on time with names on!)
Research topics
Planners signed and checked weekly If not daily!

12. Miscellaneous information…
Presentation of work - children are encouraged to present their neatest work at all times, and to work on developing joined handwriting for speed and neatness.
SOTW – Sentence of the Week every morning so please ensure your child is on time!
Mental Maths daily - children are expected by Year 4 to be confident with times tables, although we will continue to work on the speed and accuracy of these throughout the year.
Homework planners – parents should be looking at these regularly and signing them weekly.
Parent helpers if you can help at all even if it is for 30 minutes a week please complete the forms here today – you will have to complete a DBS which does cost the school £65.00 each application made.
If you want to speak to one of us after school then please feel free to come and have a word in the playground once we have dismissed the class, or we can organise a private meeting in school if necessary via a parent consultation form, available from the office.

13. Thank you for listening! Any questions?