Year 1

Year 1

Meet The Team

Class Teacher: Miss Jones

Teaching Assistant: Miss Jackson

Teaching Assistant: Miss Bridgen

Daily routine: Doors open at 8.40. Children should line up in the playground and a member of Year One staff will guide them to the classroom. Home time is 3.05.

Punctuality: After 9:00, your child will be marked as late. Please report to the school office.

Attendance: It is essential that your child attends school every day. It helps them with settling into their class as well as forming friendships. If your child is unwell and cannot attend school, please ring and inform school as soon as possible.

Drinks and snacks: Children in Year One will be provided with fruit every day. If your child wishes to have milk, please inform the office as there will be a termly fee for this. If your child does not have milk, they will be provided with water.  

Names in belongings: Please ensure all belongings are labelled with your child’s name and class. Belongings are easily lost and this helps with returning items to their rightful owner.

Uniform: All children should wear a navy cardigan or jumper (with or without school logo), a light blue shirt, grey trousers/skirt/dress, and black shoes. No boots for girls and stud earrings only.

P.E. Kit: In Year One, we have P.E. on a Tuesday and Thursday. Children will need a full kit which is a plain white t-shirt, black shorts, black pumps.

School bag: Children have previously been provided with a school bag. This is the only bag children are allowed to bring to school.

Cold weather: Please ensure children are appropriately dressed in winter months as they will still be going outside during playtimes. This means they may need tights, hats, scarves and gloves.

Topics: In Year One, our topic will change every half term. Topic information will be uploaded onto the school website each time this happens. 

Homework: In Year One, children will receive homework each Monday which should be returned on a Friday.  In line with school policy, children who do not complete homework will remain inside at break time to ensure they catch up.  

Spellings: There will be a weekly spelling test every Friday, children will be given their spelling list each week, please practice with them every night.

Reading books: Reading files should be returned to school every day. Please read with your child for at least ten minutes every night, sign their reading record (Page to and from) and comment on how they read. Asking your child questions about the story will help to improve their understanding. In line with school policy, if your child’s reading record is not signed, they will remain in class to complete their reading during playtime.

Working together: Working together with the school will make a huge positive impact on the children this year. You can help them with lots of counting in 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s as this will aid them in maths lessons. We have an open door policy in Year One. This means that if you need to talk about anything with any of the staff please just let us know at the beginning or end of the school day and we can arrange an appointment. In our school we are looking for amazing spelling and grammar! Look at any writing your children may do and remind them about things such as full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. 

Also, here is a handy link to help your children practice their phonics

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. We are going to have a fantastic year!

Thank you,

Miss Jones 

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